BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. Ill 



and La Palma de San Jos^, Costa Rica). — ^Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mua., 



xviii, 1890, 149, part (Dota, San Jos^, and Volcan de Irazd, Costa Rica; 



Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, ii, 1895, 412, part (Rio Segovia, Honduras; Matagalpa and San Rafael 



del Norte, Nicaragua; Grecia, Potrero, Cervantes, etc., Costa Rica; David 



and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. Panama). — (?) Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. 



for 1896-97 (1899), 220, part (Chaloma, Honduras). 

 [Melanerpes] formidvorus Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100, 



part. — Shaepb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 209, part. 

 Mlelanerpes] formidvorus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 291, part (Costa 



Rica). 

 Melanerpes formidvorus, vax. formidvorus Baied, Beewbe, and Ridgway, Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 566, part (Costa Rica; Honduras?). 

 [Melanerpes formidvorus'] var. striaiipectus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and 



Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, Jan., 1874, 561 (locality not given, but 



type from Birris, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Melarurpes formidvorus, var. striatipectus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and 



Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 561, footnote (crit.). 

 Melanerpes formidvorus striatipectus Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 



Jan. 30, 1902, 33 (Boquete, Chiriqui, w. Panama, 4,000-4,500 ft.).— Caeki- 



KEE, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 585 (Costa Rica; habits). 

 Melanerpes striatipectus Zeled6n, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 23. 

 Balanosphyra formidvora striatipectus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, 



Feb. 24, 1911, 35. 

 [Melarwpes] melanopogon (not Picus m^lanopogon Temminck) Heine and 



Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 223, part (Costa Rica). 



BALANOSPHYRA XANTHOLARYNX (Reichenbach). 



YELLOW-TEKOATED WOODPECKER. 



Similar to B. formicivora but differing in entire absence of black 

 on sides of head (except a malar stripe), the whole of the auricular 

 and orbital regions, together with sides of neck being white, the 

 last, however, with a few small black spots; in entire absence of 

 black on throat and chin, which are wholly yellow, and in having 

 the chest white, sparsely streaked with black, the median, as well as 

 lateral, under parts apparently also streaked with black. <* 



Mexico? (Locality of type specimen, still unique, unknown.) 



o The original description is as follows: ' ' Stim fahlweisslich, von da bis zum Genick 

 hochroth, Streit vom Mundwinkel das Auge einschliessend seitlich am Halse zur 

 Brust herabsteigend weiss! Zugel schwarz! Kehle einfarbig ochergelb. Mantel, Fliigel 

 und Schwanz schwarz, Rucken und Schultem griinlich schillemd, grosser Mittel- 

 fleck auf den Vorderschwingen und Biirzel reinweiss, Unterseite diisterweiss, 

 schwarzbraun schaffstreifig, Inneniander der Hinterschwingen weias. — Ich messe 

 9" 6'", Schnabelfiiste 11'", -spalte 1" 2'", -hohe 4"', Mundbreite 7^ , Fittig 5" 6'" 

 Schwanz 3" S'", Lauf 11"', ausaere Vorderzehe 8'", Nagel 4i"', innere Vorderzehe 

 6"', Nagel 4'", aussere Hinterzehe SJ'", Nagel 4'", innere Hinterzehe 4J'", Nagel 

 2i"'.-^Durch die in der Diagnose cuisiv gedruckten Kennzeichen sehr ausgezeich- 

 nete Art und die einzige der Gattung mit Zugeln. — Ich erhielt das Exemplar von 

 einem Naturalienhandler ohne bestimmte Angabe des Vaterlandes und mochte die 

 Art zu weiterer Beobachtung empfehlen. — Mexico?" 



