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Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but barring of back, 

 etc., less sharply defined, and that of flanks and under tail-coverts 

 much less distinct, post-nasal region dull bufFy whitish (instead of 

 cadmium yellow or orange), red of pUeum and nape less bright, less 

 uniform, and yellow of abdomen much less distinct. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but crown and occiput 

 pale buffy grayish, the former more or less mottled or barred with 

 dusky. 



State of Chiapas (Huehuet&n), southeastern Mexico, through Guate- 

 mala (Kio Managua; Cob&n to Chis6c; Palin; Goyabdj, Quitch^; 

 El Rancho, Zacapa; PatuWl, S0I0I&; Salamd; Gualin; El Rancho, 

 Lake Amatitlan; Lake Atitldn; Los Amates, Yzabdl; Iguana; 

 Duenas; San Jose; SanGeronimo; Naranjo; Retalhuleu; Santa Maria 

 de Quezaltenango ; Escuintla; El Baoul; Tolimto; Panajachal), and 

 Salvad6r (San Salvad6r; El Libertfid; Volcan de San Miguel) to 

 northern Nicaragua (Jalapa). 



Centurus santa cruzi Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 116 (Guatemala; 



coll. Velasquez); Nuov. Arm. Sci. Nat. Bologna, ii, 1839, 343. 

 Centurus santa-cruzi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 119 ("Mexico"). — Deab- 



BORN, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 93 (El Rancho, on Lake Amatitlan, 



and Patulul, Solola, Guatemala; crit.). 

 [Centurus} santacruzi Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 11) (excl. syn. dubms Cabot). 

 Centurus santacruzi Sclater and Saivin, Ibis, 1859, 136, part (Duenas and 



Salami, Guatemala; Yucatan?). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 343, part 



(Salamd, Guatemala). 

 Centurus santacruzii Owen, Ibis, 1861, 61 (San Geronimo, Guatemala; descr. 



Centurus santeruzi Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (Palin 



and Naranjo, Guatemala). 

 Centurus aurifrons santa-cruzi Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, July 18, 



1881, 106, part (Guatemala; monogr.). 

 [Centurus aurifrons] /9. santacruzi Ridgway, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., iv, July 18, 



1881, 97, part (Guatemala; diagnosis). 

 P[iciLs] santa cruzi Sundevail, Consp. Ay. Picin., 1866, 53, part (Guatemala). 

 Mlelanerpes} santa-cruzi Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294, part (Guate- 



[Melanerpes aurifrons.] Subsp. a. Melanerpes santacruzi Hargitt, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 179, part (Duenas, Retalhuleu, and Raoul, 



Guatemala). 

 Melanerpes santacruzi Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 420, 



part (Santa Maria de Quezaltenango, Salamd, San Ger6nimo, Retalhuleu, 



Escuintla, El Baoul, Duenas, Tollman, and Panajachel, Guatemala; Volcan 



San Miguel and La Libertad, Salvador.) 

 [Melanerpes] santacruzi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211, part (Guatemala). 

 Centurus santa-cruzi pauper (not of Ridgway) Deaiiborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. 



N. H., 1907, 93 (LoB Amates, Yzabal, Guatemala; crit.). 

 Melanerpes santacruzi fumosus Nelson, Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 258 (Huehuetan, 



Chiapas; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Centurus santa-cruzi fumosus Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., Nov., 1907, 



94 (San Soa6, Guatemala; crit.). 



