BIRDS OF NOSTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 123 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Avea, ii, 1895, 415, part (Orizaba, Santecomapam, and 

 TJvero, Vera Cruz; Brit. Honduras; Coban, Choctum, Chisec, and Yzabal, 

 Guatemala; Omoa, San Pedro, and Truxillo, Honduras). 



M[elanerpes] jmelierani Ridqway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 291, part. 



[MeUnerpes] pucherani Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210, part. 



Picus gerini (not P. geiinii Temminck?) Sundevall, Consp. Av. Pinin., 1866, 

 55, part (Guatemala). 



tCenturus gerinii Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Capit. and Picid., 1868, 101 (Hon- 

 duras?). 



^[Centurus] gerinii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 197, no. 8765. 



Melanerpea pucherani perileueus Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, Dec. 6, 

 1910, 153 (near Manatee, Brit. Honduras; coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



TRIPSURUS CHRYSAUCHEN (Salvin). 



GOLDEH-ITAPED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Forehead and hindneck bright yellow (chrome or pale 

 Ghrome, the forehead sometimes cadmium yellow) ; crown and occiput 

 bright poppy red or scarlet-vermilion; back, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts deep black, faintly glossed with bluish, the median line of 

 back broadly streaked with white; rump and upper tail-coverts white, 

 the former sometimes barred with black on upper lateral portion; 

 tail brownish black; remiges and primary coverts brownish black, the 

 inner secondaries usually margined terminally and more or less 

 spotted on edges with white; supra- and post-ocular regions, auricular 

 region, and sides of neck uniform deep, slightly glossy, black, the 

 postocular legion usually with a more or less distinct elongated patch 

 or streak of white; malar region, chin, and throat plain light yellowish 

 gray, the suborbital region more whitish; foreneck, chest, breast, and 

 sides of upper abdomen deeper yellowish gray, strongly washed or 

 tinged with wax yellow or saffron yellow; lower abdomen and median 

 portion of upper abdomen bright scarlet- vermilion or scarlet; sides, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts broadly and irregularly barred with 

 black and whitish; under wing-coverts similarly marked, but black 

 predominating along edge of wing; inner webs of remiges with large 

 quadrate spots of white (in transverse series), except on distal portion 

 of outer and longer primaries; bill blackish, paler on lower basal 

 portion of mandible; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 162-181 (174); wing, 108-116 (112.2); tail, 51-60.5 (55); 

 culmen, 23.5-27.5 (25.7); tarsus, 19-20.5 (19.5); outer anterior toe, 

 16.5-19 (17.8). "^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without any red on 

 head, the duller yellow of pUeum interrupted by a more or less 

 broad, crescentic band of black across crown; length (skins), 152-186 



o Fifteen specimens. 



