124 BTJLLETIlir 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(168); wing, 105-116 (110); tail, 48.5-60 (53.5); culmen, 21.5-25 

 (23.3); tarsus, 18-19.5 (18.8) ; middle toe, 16-18 (17.1).» 



Young female. — Similar to the adult female, but frontal area 

 yellowish olive, color of chest, etc., lighter and more olivaceous, 

 more grayish posteriorly, and faintly spotted or mottled with darker 

 (the upper chest with a few small spots or short streaks of blackish), 

 and blackish bars of flanks, etc., much less distinct and less regular. 



Western Panama (Bugaba and Divala, ChiriquI) and southwestern 

 Costa Kica (T^rraba; Boruca; Lagarto; Paso Eedl; Pozo Azfil de 

 Pirrls; Pozo del Rio Grande; El General). 



Melanerpes chrysauchen Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 213 (Bugaba, 

 Ohiriqui, Panama; coU. Salvin and Godman). — Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iv, 1881, 96, in text.— Hahgitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 160 

 (Bugaba, Chiriqui). — Chebhie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 537 (Pozo 

 Azul, s. w. Costa Rica); Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 46 (Lagarto and 

 T^rraba, s. w. Costa Rica).^SALviN and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 ii, 1895, 414, pi. 60.— Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 292 (Boruca, Paso Real, and 

 Pozo del Rio Grande, b. w. Costa Rica). — Caeeikee, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 

 vl, 1910, 586 (s. w. Costa Rica; habits). 



[Melanerpes] chrysauchen Sclatbe and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100. — 

 Shaepb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210. 



[Pious] chrysauchen Giebel, Thes. Orn., iii, 1876, 150. 



Genus CHLORONERPES Swainson. 



(Type, Pieus rubiginosus 

 (Type, Picus 



liii. 



Chloronerpes Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 307 



Swainson.) 

 Lampropicus Malheebb, Mon. Picid., Introd., 1861, p 



aurulentus Temminck.) 

 Oraugasus,^ part, Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, Oct. 9, 1863, 157. 



(New name for Chrysopicus Bonaparte (not Chrysopicos Malherbe) and Lam- 



propieus Malherbe, on grounds of purism.) 



Medium-sized Picidse (wing 98-137 mm.) closely similar in struc- 

 tural characters to Tripsurus, Centunis, etc., but differing con- 

 spicuously in coloration, the upper parts mostly plain olive-greenish, 

 under parts barred with olive, or dusky, and yellowish, and inner 



o Eleven specimens . 



b ' ' Von Kpaixaaoc ( =Kpcujr(ig, Specht) . ' ' (Cabanis and Heine. ) 



