BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 91 



CENTURUS CHRYSOGENYS FLAVINUCHUS Ridgway. 

 ACAPTTLCO WOODPECKER. 



Similar to C. c. chrysogenys, but adult male with nape bright 

 orange-yellow (cadmium yellow to orange), strongly (often abruptly) 

 contrasted with red of occiput and crown, frontal area averaging 

 broader and paler, yellow of malar region, etc., averaging much paler, 

 the adult female with nape orange-yellow instead of reddish orange 

 or orange-red; wing and tail averaging longer, tail shorter. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 184-233 (210); wing, 118-128.5 

 (123.5); tail, 61.5-76.5 (69.5); culmen, 26.5-30.5 (27.6); tarsus, 

 20.5-22 (21.5); outer anterior toe, 18-20.5 (19.5)." 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 186-213 (203); wing, 118-125.5 

 (120.7); tan, 65-73 (68.6); culmen, 23.5-30 (25.6); tarsus, 19-22 

 (20.4); outer anterior toe, 17.5-20 (18.3).* 



Sojith-central and southwestern Mexico, in States of Puebla (Izucdr 

 deMatamoras; Epatldn), Morelos (Punta de Ixtla), Jalisco (Hacienda 

 San Marcos; Beltrdn; Tuxp&n; Las Camas; Volcan de Nieve), 

 Michoacfi,n (nearAhuacana; LaSdlada; La Playa, Volcan de JorruUa), 

 Colima (Hacienda Nogueres; Plains of Colima; Manzanillo; Kio de 

 la Coahuyana; Colima), Guerrero (El LLm6n; Acapulco; Iguala; 

 Dos Arroyos), and western Oaxaca (Putla). 



Picas elegans (not of Miiller, 1776 «) Swainson, PHlos. Mag., n. s., i, no. 6, June, 

 1827, 439 ("Maritime land" [of Mexico]) = adult male). — Lesson, Compl. 

 Buff., ix, 1837, 318.— SuNDEVALL, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 55 ("Mexico"). 

 P[icus] elegans Waglee, Isis, 1829, 514. 



C[enturus] elegans Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 442. — Reichenbach, Handb. Scan- 

 , sores, Picinae, 1854, 411. 



[Centums] elegans Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 119; Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 



126 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 11).— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 197, no. 



8763.— ScLATEE and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101. 



;f Centums elegans Baied, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 333 (Mexico); 



Ibis, 1863, 476 (Colima).— Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 327 (Acapulco, 



1 Guerrero; crit.).- (?)Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 342 ("Mexico").— 



(?)Geay, List Birds Brit. Mus., Capit. and Picid., 1868, 101 ("Mexico").— 



Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 399; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 425 



(Acapulco). — Feeeari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 160 (Izucar de 



Matamoras, Puebla). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 218 (La Playa, 



Volcan de Jorulla, Micboacan). 



Zehrapicas elegans Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 225; iv, 1862, pi. 102, fig. 5 



(male). 

 M[elanerpes] elegans Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 292, part. 

 Melanerpes elegans Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 184, part (Putla, 

 Oaxaca; Beltran and Hacienda San Marcos, Jalisco; Plains of Colima; Aca- 

 pulco and Dos Arroyos, Guerrero; Epatlan, Puebla). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 424, part (Beltran, etc., Jalisco; Plains of 

 Colima; La Playa, Michoacan; Acapulco, etc., Guerrero; Izucar de Mata- 

 moros, etc., Puebla). 

 [Melanerpes] elegans Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 212. 

 Jf' Centurus chrysogenys flavinuchus Ridgway, Proc, Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 

 ^' 24, 1911, 32 (Acapulco, Guerrero; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



<^ Sixteen specimens. 6 Thirteen specimens. ''=Celeus elegans (yLviWeT:). 



