88 BrrLLETinr 50, itnited states national museum. 



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

 part (Tampico, s. Tamaulipas; Las Vigas, Jakpa, Coatepec, Misantla, Cuesta 

 de Misantla, Vega del Casadero, Atoyac, Cordova, Jomotla, Santana, Plan' 

 del Rio, Huatusco, Cuichapa?, Zentla, Rio Rancho Nuevo, Hacienda Tor- 

 tugas. Vera Cruz, Orizaba, Sochiapa, and Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz). 



C[entuTus\ erythrophthalmus Reichenbach, Eandb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 409, 

 pi. 664, figs. 4407, 4408 (Santuario and Jalapa, Vera Cruz; coll. Berlin Mus.; 

 ex. Lichtenstein, manuscript). 



Centurus flaviventris (not of Swainson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 

 252 (Vera Cruz). 



Ceniurus alUfrons (not of Swainson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 364 

 (near City of Mexico; crit.). 



P[ieus] santa cruzi Stjndevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 53, part (s. Mexico). 



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



Centurus aunfrons (not Picas aurifrons Wagler) Sumichrast, La Naturaleza, v, 

 1882, 240 (Orizaba, etc., Vera Cruz). 



CENTURUS SANTACRUZI PAUPER Ridgway. 

 TRTTXILLO WOODPECKER. 



Similbr to C. s. santacruzi, but smaller, and with white bars on 

 back, etc., usually still narrower. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 195-218 (209); wing, 117.5-131 

 (123.7); taU, 63-77 (69.2); culmsn, 25-30 (27.4); tarsus, 20-23.5 

 (21.2); outer anterior toe, 17-20 (18.7).» 



Adult feTnale.— Length, (skins), 195-218 (207); wing, 115.5-123 

 (119.5); tail, 62-71.5 (66.9); culmen, 24-27 (25.8); tarsus, 20-22 

 (20.9); outer anterior toe, 17-19 (18.1)." 



Caribbean slope of Honduras (TruxHlo; San Pedro; San Pedro 

 Sula; C^iba; Omoa; Chaloma; Comay^gua). British Honduras 

 (Belize) ? 



Centurus santacruzi (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 

 359 (Comayagua, Honduras). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 136, part 

 (Comayagua); 1870, 837 (Julian and San Pedro, Honduras). — ^Moore, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 60 (Omoa, Honduras).— Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 119 

 (Honduras; habits). 



[Centurus aurifrons] ^. santacruzi Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 97, 

 part (Honduras). 



Centurus aurifrons santa-cruzi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., iv, 1881, 106, 

 part (Honduras; monogr.). 



M[elanerpes] santa-cruzi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294, part (Hon- 

 duras). 



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

 Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 179, part (Julian and San Pedro, Honduras). 



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

 420, part (Julian, San Pedro, TruxUlo, Omoa, and Comayagua, Honduras). 



[Melanerpes] santacruzi Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211, part (Honduras). 



Centurus santacruzi pauper Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, sig. 37, Aug. 6, 

 1888, 582 (Truxillo, Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



<» Ten specimens. 



