BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 87 



\ CENTDRUS SANTACRUZI GRATELOUPENSIS (Lesson). 



LESSON'S WOODPECKER. 



Similar to C. s. santacruzi, but general color of underparts and 

 sides of head averaging paler, forehead averaging more purely white, 

 and white bars on upper parts usually relatively broader. [Some- 

 what like C. mirifrons, but back, etc., much more narrowly barred, 

 no gray band across occiput, hindneck bright orange-red (confluent 

 with red of crown), postnasal region deep orange to orange-red, 

 general color of underparts much darker and more olive or brownish, 

 yellow of abdomen more saffron, white markings on subbasal portion 

 of primaries much more restricted, and inner web of middle rectrices 

 with more or less of white.] 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 220-240 (230); wing, 129-136.5 

 (132.9); tail, 75-80 (78.2); culmen, 27-33 (29.8); tarsus, 22-25.5 

 (23.4); outer anterior toe, 19-21.5 (20).'^ 



Adult femiile.— Length, (skins), 210-234 (218); wing, 124-134.5 

 (129.1); tail, 72.5-81 (75.9); culmen, 25.5-28 (26.9); tarsus, 21-23 

 (21.8); outer anterior toe, 18.5-19.5 (18.9).* 



Eastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Alta Mira; Tampico), 

 Vera Cruz (Las Vigas; Jalapa; Co&tepec; Misantla; Cuesta de 

 Misantla; Vega de Casadero; Atoy^c; C6rdova; Jomotla; Rio Santa 

 Ana; Plan del Rio; Huatusco; Cuichapa; Zentla; Rio Rancho Nuevo; 

 Hacienda Tortugas; Vera Cruz; Orizaba; Mirad6r; Sochiapa; Playa 

 Vicente; Antigua; Papantla; Medellin; Motzorongo; Tlalcotalpim), 

 Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), and Oaxaca (Rincon Antonio; Santo 

 Domingo). 



Pieus grateloupensis Lesson, Kev. Zool., 1839, 41 (Mexico). — ^Wagner, Wieg- 



mann's AicMv fiir Natuig., 1841, 100. 

 [Centurus] grateloupensis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. 

 Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 11) (excl. syn.). 

 ! Centurus santacruzi (not of Bonaparte) Sclatbr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 307 

 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; crit.); 1859, 367 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1864, 177 (near 

 City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 343, part (s. Mexico). 

 [Centwrus] santa cruzi Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 198, no. 8769 (excl. syn. part). 

 Centurus santacruzii Baird, in Rep. Stansbury's Surv. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 



333 (western Texas). 

 [Centurus aurifrons] ^. santacruzi Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Kat. Mus., iv, 1881, 97, 



part (s. Mexico). 

 Centurus aurifrons santorcruzi Bidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 106, 



part (s. Mexico). 

 Zebrapicus santa-cruzi Malheebe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 241, part; iv, 1862, pi. 



105, figs. 4, 5. 

 Mlelanerpes] santa-cruzi RroGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294, part (Jalapa 



and Mirador, Vera Cruz). 

 [Melanerpes aurifrons.] Subsp. a. Melanerpes santacruzi Hakgitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xviii, 1890, 179, part (Tampico, s. Tamaulipas; San Juan del Rio, Vera 

 Cruz, Atoyac, Misantla, Jomotla, Rio Santa Ana and Plan del Rio near 

 Jalapa, Huatusco, Cuichapa near Cordova, and Coatepec, Vera Cruz). 



" Ten specimens. b Seven specimens. 



