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Barranca Honda; El Rmc6n, San Marcos; Ciupach^; plains of Que- 

 zaltenango; ridge above Totonicap3,m). Northern Nicaragua (Mata- 

 galpa)." 



P[ieus] rubicatus Waqlee, Isis, 1829, 516, part (female). 



C[olaptes] rubricatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 446. 



Colaptes rubricatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, pi. 111. 



Geopicus rubricatus Malhbrbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 265, pi. 110, flgs. 1, 2. 



Col{aptes\ mexicanoides Lafhbsnatb, Rev. Zool., vii, Feb., 1844, 42 ("Mexico;" 

 coll. Latresnaye). 



Colaptes mexicanoides Sclatbr and Saivin, Ibis, 1859, 137 (Coban and Lob Cho- 

 coyas, Guatemala; crit.). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 344 (Coban). — 

 Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 121. — Salvin andGoDMAN, Ibis, 

 1892, 327 (Matagalpa, Nicaragua); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 404 (locali- 

 ties in Guatemala; Matagalpa). — Dearborn, Pub. 125, FieldMus. N. H., 1907, 

 94 (Lake Atitlan and near Tecpam, Guatemala, 5,000-9,500 ft.; descr. nest; 

 crit.). 



[Colaptes] mexicanoides Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 202, no. 8831. — Sclatbr and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101. 



C[olaptes] mexicanoides Baird, Brewer, and Eidqway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 574.— Kidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 296.— Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 25, 37 (crit.). 



Geopicos mexicanoides Malhbrbe, M6m. Ac. Metz, xxs, 1849, 359. 



Colaptes collaris (not of Vigors) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 114. 



[Colaptes] collaris Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126. 



Picus submexicanus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 72 (new name for C. 

 mexicanoides; the latter rejected on grounds of purism). 



Colaptes submexicanus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 21 (Barranca 

 Hondo, Tactic, Coban, and Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 



[Colaptes] sub-mexicanus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201. 



Genus NESOCELEUS Sclater and Salvin. 



Nesoceleus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101, 155. (Type, by 

 original designation, Colaptes fernandinse Vigors.) 



Rather large Picidse (wing 144-157 mm.) similar to Colaptes, but 

 with nostrils wholly exposed (no trace of antrorse prefrontal plumes), 

 no black jugular patch, no white on rump, and with whole of body, 

 wii^s, and tail barred with black and brownish yellow. 



BUI about as long as head, rather slender, very slightly decurved 

 terminally, its tip pointed (not at all chisel-shaped), its width at 

 posterior end of nostrils decidedly greater than its depth at same 

 point; ridge of cuhnen indistinct basally, distinct terminally; an 

 indistinct supranasal ridge, runniug parallel with culmen for about 

 basal half of maxilla; gonys about as long as mandibular rami, 

 straight or very faintly concave terminally, slightly prominent 

 basally, rather distinctly ridged; commissure nearly straight to near 

 base, where slightly deflected. Nostril wholly exposed, rather large, 

 roundish. Feathers of frontal antise small, short, and erect (not 



" I have not seen a specimen from Nicaragua, and doubt whether specimens from, 

 that country are subspecifically identical with those from Guatemala. They should 

 be carefully compared. 



