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ChriBti).— Attwatbk, Auk, ix, 1892, 235 (San Antonio, resident).— Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 418 (Julines, Chihuahua; 

 Ceralva, Hacienda de las Escobas, San Augustin, etc., Nuevo Leon; Aguaa 

 Calientes and Cal-villo, AguasCalientes; Silao, Guanajuato; etc.).— Bendike, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 124.— Pinmps, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 75 (Mata- 

 moras, San Fernando, Alta Mira, and Rio de la Cruz, Tamaulipas). 



M[elanerpes] aurifrons Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294. 



[Melanerpes] aurifrons Shabpb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211. 



Centurusjlavivmtris (not Picus flaviventris Vieillot)" Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 

 1837, 354 (no locality given).— Woodhousb, in Rep. Sitgreaves's Expl. 

 Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 91 (San Antonio, Texas).— Baikd, in Rep. Stans- 

 bury's Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 333 (Texas); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 110; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 42, figs. 1, 2; Rep. U. S. 

 and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 5, pi. 4 (Eagle Pass and Ringgold 

 Barracks, Texas; Matamoras, Tamaulipas); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 92. — Hebbmann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, no. 1, 1859, 18 (San Antonio). — 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 469 (n. e. to Guadalupe R., Texas). 



C[enturus]flaviventns Sclateb, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 8, in text (Texas). 



C[entuTUs] subekgans (not of Bonaparte, 1837) Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 442. 

 ■ [Centums] subelegans Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 11), part (excl. syn.); Notes Om. Coll. Delatte6, 1854, 85. 



Piais siibelegans Lesson, Compl. (Euv. Buffon (L6v6que), xx, 1847, 206. 



Pieus ornaius Lesson, Rev. Zool., March, 1839, 102 (Mexico; coll. Abeill6.) 



C[mturus\ ornatus Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 410, pi. 664, 

 figs. 4409, 4410. 



Centurus elegans (not Pieus elegans Swainson) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 

 1852, 116 (Texas). — Baird, in Rep. Stansbury's Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 

 333 (Rio Grande, Texas). 



Centurus santa-cruzi (not of Bonaparte) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 1852, 

 128 (w. Texas). 



Centurus sanUuruzii Baird, in Rep. Stansbiuy's Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 

 333 (w. Texas). 



P[fcMs] santa cruzi SuNDEVAm, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 58, part (Texas). 



CENTDRUS SANTACRUZl SANTACRUZI Bonaparte. 

 VELASQUEZ'S WOODPECEEK. 



Adult male. — Postnasal region cadmium yellow to cadmium 

 orange, usually paler anteriorly; forehead and anterior portion of 

 superciliary region dull white or bufly grajosh white, passing into 

 yellowish mouse gray or drab-gray on supra-auricular region; crown, 

 occiput, and nape bright poppy red, passing into a more orange-red 

 hue on hindneck, the posterior margin usually tinged or intermixed 

 with orange-yellow; back, scapulars, and upper rump narrowly and 

 very sharply barred with black and white, the white bars much 

 narrower than the black interspaces, and averaging about 1-1.5 mm. 

 in width; lower rump and upper tail-coverts white, usually immacu- 

 late but sometimes with shaft-streaks or irregular markings of 

 black; wings black, the coverts and secondaries with narrow and 



o =Sphyrapicus ruber. 



