ISS BULLETIN- So, XJNITEI) STATES NATIOITAL MUSEUM. 



Mlelanerpes] piicherani Eidgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 291, part. 

 [Melanerpes] pucherani Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210, part. 

 JHpsurus pucherani Saivadoki, Atti Soc. Torino, iv, 1868, 183 (Costa Rica). 

 (l)Picus gerinii Tbmminck, Planches Col., iv, livr. 73, July, 1827, in text to P 



supereiliaris (based on Picus varius indieus Gerini, Orn., ii, 48, pi. 171; Picas 



carolinus var. d. Latham, Index Om., i, 231). 

 {'i)Zebrapicus gerinii Malheebe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 231. 

 Picus gerini Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 55, part (Colombia; Ecuador). 

 Centurus gerini Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 131 (San Jos6, Costa 



Rica). — Feantzius, Joum. ftir Om., 1869, 864 (Costa Rica). 



TRIPSURUS PUCHERANI PERILEUCUS (Todd). 

 WHITE-BAKIIES WOODPECKES. 



Similar to T. p. pucherani, but. back, scapulars, and wings more 

 broadly barred with white, the middle coverts usually distinctly 

 barred, spotted, or terminally margined with white, ^nd more fre- 

 quently with white markings on inner web of middle rectrices; aver- 

 aging slightly smaller. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 170-188 (179); wing, 106-118 (112.1); 

 tail, 53-61 (56.8) ; culmen, 20.5-28 (24) ; tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.2) ; outer 

 anterior toe, 15.5-17.5 (16.9). » 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 165-193 (175); wing, 107.5-115 

 (110); tail, 52-59 (56.1); culmen, 21-25 (23.3); tarsus, 17.5-19 

 (18.5); outer anterior toe, 15-17.5 (16.5).'' 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Santecomap&m; 

 Orizaba; Uvero; Buena Vista), Puebla (Huehuetan; Chapulco; 

 Tehuacto), Oaxaca (Cuicuitlto; Oaxaca City; motmtains near Santo 

 Domingo), Tabasco (Teapa) and Chiapas (Palenque) and southward 

 through Guatemala (Cobdn; ChisSc; Choctum; Yzabal; sources of 

 Kio de la Pasi6n) to British Honduras (Toledo District; Manatee 

 River; near Manatee Lagoon) and northern Honduras (Truxillo; 

 Yaruca; Omoa; San Pedro). 



Zebrapieus pucherani Malhbrbb, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 227, part (Mexico; Guate- 

 mala). 



Centurus pucherani Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 229 (Santecomapam, 

 Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 342, part (Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — ^Mooeb, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 60 (Omoa, Hondiuas). — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 837 (San Pedro, Honduras). — Boucard, Liste 

 Oifl. r&ol. Guat., 1878, 27.— Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 583 

 (Truxillo, Honduras). 



Centurus pucheranii Sclateh and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 136 (Omoa, Honduras). — 

 Salvtn and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 43 (Coban and Yzabal, Guatemala). 



Melanerpes pucherani HAHorrT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 164, part 

 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Vera Paz, sources of Rio de la Pasion, Chisec, and 

 Yzabal, Guatemala; Brit. Honduras; Honduras). — Salvin and Godman, 



o Seventeen specimens. ' Eleven specimens. 



