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{1)Centurus santa-cruzi pauper Deakborn, Pub. 125, Field Mub. N. H., 1907, 93, 



part (Belize, Brit. Honduras; crit.)- 

 Centurus santacnm paupera Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 



220 (Chaloma, Honduras). 

 Melanerpes santacruzi pauper Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. xxxix, 1903, 146 

 (Ceiba, Honduras). 



CENTURUS CHRYSOGENYS CHRYSOGENYS (Vigors). 

 GOLDEN-CHEEKED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Forehead (narrowly) pale buffy brown or pale wood 

 brown; crown and occiput bright red (between poppy red and 

 carmine) ; hindneck bright chrome or cadmiimi, passing into a more 

 porange-red hue on nape, the latter into orange or orange-yellow on 

 lower portion or along posterior edge; a large superciliary patch of 

 black, this sometimes entirely encircling the bare Srbital space, but 

 much broader above and behind; prefrontal region rather dull cad- 

 mium yeUow or orange, or sometimes nearly concolor with forehead; 

 back, scapulars, and upper rump barred with black and white, the 

 two colors about equal in width; lower riunp and upper tail-coverts 

 white, barred with black; wing black, the coverts more narrowly, 

 the secondaries more broadly barred with white, the primaries ex- 

 tensively blotched with white sub-basaUy and tipped or terminally 

 margined with the same; tail black, the middle pair of rectrices 

 broadly barred with white, the outer pair more narrowly barred, 

 the terminal half (more or less) of the next similarly barred, the 

 other rectrices with inner webs usually barred or spotted along the 

 edge with white; malar and aiuicular regions (sometimes chin also) 

 cadmium or chrome yellow (more or less deep); throat, foreneck, 

 sides of neck, chest, breast, and sides plain deep drab-gray or hair 

 brown; abdomen (superficially) saffron yeUow (more or less deep); 

 flanks, and under taU-co verts dull white barred with black, the bars 

 more or less V-shaped; imder wing-coverts white, rather narrowly 

 barred with black; inner webs of primaries extensively blotched 

 with white sub-basaUy, the inner webs of secondaries broadly barred 

 or transversely spotted with white; biU dull black, more brownish 

 on lower basal portion of mandible; legs and feet grayish dusky 

 !. (greenish gray or olive in life?); length (skins), 204-223 (210); wing, 

 '118-124.5 (121.3); taU, 71.5-77 (74.1); culmen, 25-28 (26.6); tarsus, 

 20.5-23 (21.6); outer anterior toe, 17.5-19.5 (18.9).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but crown and occiput 

 brownish gray (more brownish or buffy anteriorly), the occiput some- 

 times intermixed with black, rarely nearly imiform black, the nape 

 varying from orange to orange-red; length (skins), 194-211 (202) ; wing 



" Ten specimens (seven from Sinaloa, three from Tepic). 



