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YouTig male. — Similar to the adult male, but forehead usually 

 tinged with red, red malar stripe less intense (often less uniform, more 

 or less barred), feathers of occiput and hindneck (sometimes of crown 

 also) indistinctly tipped with paler, gray of throat, etc., paler and 

 (usually) less bluish, black spots on under parts smaller and less 

 sharply defined, and yellow of wings and tail paler. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but malar stripe light 

 vinaceous brown or pale fawn color. 



Southern Lower California (Cape San Lucas; San Jos^ del Cabo; 

 Santiago; Sanlgndcio; Santa Ana; Santa Anita; Triunfo; La Paz; 

 Todos Santos; Ubai; 20 miles south of Calmalll). 



Geopicus {Colaptes . . .) chrysoides Malhehbe, Bev. et Mag. de Zool., iv, Dec, 

 1852, 553 ("America;" type locality fixed by Anthony, Auk, xii, 1895, 347, 

 as Cape San Lucas, Lower CaUfomia). 



Geopicus chrysoides Malheebe, Mon. Picid., iv, 1862, 261, pi. 109, figs. 1, 4. 



C[olaptes] chrysoides Reichbnbach, Hamdb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 413.— Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 493, part.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 

 1887, 295, part. 



[Colaptes] chrysoides Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126. — Gbat, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 202, no. 8834, part.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 198, part.— 

 Sharpb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201, part. 



Colaptes chrysoides Baied, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 302 (Cape San Lucas); 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 99, part.— Sclateb, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 344 

 (Cape San Lucas). — Ghat, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 120 (Mexico). — 

 Elliot, New and Unfig. Birds N. Am., i, 1869, pi. 26 and text, part. — Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 313, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 458, part. — Baied, Beewbe, 

 and RiDGWAT, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 583, part, pi. 54, fig. 2 (not fig. 

 1).— Ridgway, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 190, part; Nom. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 379, part.— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 543 

 (La Paz, Lower California), 349 (Victoria Mts., Lower California). — ^Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 414, 

 part; 3d ed., 1910, 195, part.- Bryant, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, 1889, 

 287, part (Cape district; Santa Margarita I.). — Haegitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xviii, 1890, 16, part (La Paz, Triunfo, Todos Santos, San Jos6, and 

 - ., Cape San Lucas, Lower California). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, ii, 1895, 405, part. — ^Bbndire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 138, 

 part. — Beewstbe, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 108 (Cape San Lucas 

 district; crit., etc.). 



Colaptes chrysoides chrysoides Gkinnbll (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, June 25, 

 1902, 78, part.— Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, 1911, 32 (range).— 

 Ambeican Oenithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxix, 1912, 383. 



Picus chrysoides Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 72, part. 



COLAPTES CHRYSOIDES BRUNNESCENS Anthony. 

 SAK FERNAITDO FLICKER. 



Similar to 0. c. chrysoides, but coloration decidedly darker and 

 browner, color of pileum more rufescent (russet, or between russet 

 and mars brown, in typical specimens), immaculate area of nunp 

 more restricted (sometimes whole rump spotted with black), wing 

 and tail averaging shorter, and bill longer. 



