BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female.— Length, (skins), 203-231 (213); wing, 118-134.5 

 (124.7); tail, 65-83.5 (72); culmen, 25-28.5 (26.5); tarsus, 19.5-23.5 

 (21.3); outer anterior toe, 17-19 (18.1).» 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Coatzocoalcos; Pasa 

 Nueva; Tlalcotalpdm; Playa Vicente; Sochiapa; San Juan; Orizaba), 

 Oaxaca (Rio Givlcia; Guichicovi; Ttixtepec), Tabasco (Frontera; 

 Atasta; Montecristo; San Juan Bautista), and Chiapas (Tila), and 

 adjacent parts of Guatemala. 



Picas albifrons (not of Swainson) Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 52, part 

 (Vera Cruz). 



Melanerpes dubius versecruds Nelson, Auk, xvii, no. 3, July, 1900, 259 (Coatzo- 

 coalcos, Vera Cruz; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Melanerpes santacruzi (not Centurus santacruzi Bonaparte) Saxvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 420, part (Playa Vicente and Sochiapa, 

 Vera Cruz; crit. on p. 421). 



[Melanerpes] dubius Shaepb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211, part. 



CENTURUS DUBIUS LEEI (Ridgway). 



LEE'S WOODPECKER. 



Similar to C. d. dubius, but under parts much darker (yellowish 

 broccoli brown in unfaded specimens), rump and upper tail-coverts 

 usually more or less (often heavily) barred with black, the adult 

 male with whitish frontal band much narrower, sometimes obsolete; 

 bill and feet averaging larger. 



" Fourteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Guatemala 



Six adult males from Tabasco 



Three adult males from Oaxaca 



Seven adult males from Vera Cruz 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Guatemala (locality not given) 



One adult female from Chiapas (Tila) 



Three adult females from Tabasco 



Three adult females from Oaxaca 



Six adult females from Vera Cruz 



19 



18.9 

 19.5 

 19.4 



18.5 



18 



18.3 



18 



18 



As might be expected, specimens from Tabasco, Chiapas, and Guatemala are not 

 typical. They are intermediate in coloration between the birds from Vera Cruz 

 and Oaxaca and those from Yucatan and Oampeche, some of them nearer the latter; 

 but they are even smaller than Vera Cruz and Oaxaca specimens, and therefore can 

 not properly be referred to C d. dubius. 



