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Colaptes chrysoides (not Geopicus chrysoides Malherbe) Batrh, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 125 (Mexican boundary line); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 6; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 99, part.— Cooper, 

 Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 1861, 122 (Ft. Mojave, Arizona); Orn. Calif., 1870, 

 410, part (Ft. Mojave).— Coubs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1866, 56 (Ft. 

 Mojave); Check Liat, 1873, no. 313, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 458, part.— 

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

 Baird, Bhewer, and Ridqwat, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 583, part, 

 pi. 54, fig. 1 (not fig. 2).— RiDGWAT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 190, 

 part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 379, part. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 73 (Tucson, Arizona); viii, 1883, 24 (Big Sandy R., 

 Tuc86n, and Camp Lowell, Arizona; descr. young; crit.). — Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 344 (Guaymas, Sonora). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895) no. 414, part; 3d ed., 1910, 

 195, part. — Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 429 (Tuc86n, San Pedro Valley, and Santa 

 Catalina Mts., Arizona). — ^Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 16, part 

 (TucB6n, etc., Arizona; Ysleta and Hermoeillo, Sonora).^ — Rhoads, Proc- 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 116 (s. Arizona, in valleys). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 405, part (Guaymas, Hermosillo, La Cobriza, 

 Cedros, and Ysleta, Sonora). — Bbndire, Lite Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 

 138, part.— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (Culiacdn, 

 Sinaloa).— Tbayek and Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1906, 18 

 (Opodepe, Sonora). 



[Colaptes] chrysoides Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 202, no. 8834, part. — Coubs, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 198, part.— Sharpb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201, part. 



C[olaptes] chrysoides Coubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 493, part. — Ridg- 

 WAT, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 295, part. 



Colaptes chrysoides chrysoides Geinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 

 78, part. 



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



Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi Ridgwat, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 

 1911, 32 (Quitovaquita, Arizona; coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.). — ^American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxix, 1912, 384. 



COLAPTES CAFER CAFER (Gmelin). 



UEXICAIT BED-SHAFTES FUCKEB. 



Adult male. — Pileum grayish brown (nearly broccoli brown to 

 sepia) passing anteriorly into cinnamon-brown or russet on forehead 

 (sometimes crown also cinnamomeous), this into clearer cinnamon 

 or russet on loral and superciliary regions, the hindneck more grayish 

 brown or brownish gray; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and seconda^ 

 ries brown or grayish brown (drab or brownish drab)," barred, more 

 or less broadly, with black, the black bars always much less than 

 half as wide as the brown interspaces, except on secondaries, where 

 much' broader, those on the distal secondaries about as wide as the 

 brown ones, here reduced to deep marginal indentations; rump white, 



o As a rule, the color is lighter and grayer in specimens taken in late spring and 

 summer, darker and browner in those which have recently molted. 



