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ually on more posterior under parts to pale citron yellow, broadly 

 and rather regularly barred with olive, the under tail-coverts, how- 

 ever, with the yellowish bars much narrower than the olive inter- 

 spaces; bill grayish black; iris brown;" feet dusky grayish (bluish 

 ash in life);" length (skins), 221-261 (240); wing, 130.5-137 (133.6); 

 tail, 81.5-90 (86.3); culmen, 25-29 (26.6); tarsus, 23-25 (23.7); 

 outer anterior toe, 20-21 (20.4) .* 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but under parts of body 

 much less distinctly barred (sometimes whole abdomen and flanks 

 nearly immaculate) and much duller yellowish; chest and foreneck 

 regularly barred, but the bars less strongly contrasted; and red of 

 nape extending forward, along sides of crown and forehead, to base 

 of bill. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but malar region pale 

 gray or grayish white, narrowly streaked with blackish, and red of 

 nape not extending laterally to eye; length (skins), 217-250 (226); 

 wing, 127.5-135.5 (130.9) ; tail, 78-89 (85.5) ; culmen, 23-25.5 (24.2); 

 tarsus, 22-23.5 (22.6); outer anterior toe, 18-19.5 (18.7).* 



Eastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (C6rdova; Jalapa; Orizaba; 

 Mirad6r; Co^tepec; Papantla), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), San Luis 

 Potosi (Jilitla), Nueva Le6n (Cerro de la Silla; Boquillo); and 

 Tamaulipas (Vict6ria; Sierra Madre, above Vict6ria; Tampico; Alta 

 Mira; Kio Pil6n; Rampahuila; Rio Santa; Rio de la Cruz; Santa 

 Leonora; Guiavea; Gahndo; Potrero; Rio Martinez). 



{Jl)Picus poUocephalns Lichtenstbin, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 1 (Mexico); 

 Joum. ttir Orn., 1863, 55 (reprint). 



C[hloronerpes] ruhiginosus (not of Swainson) Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 443. 



Chloronerpes ruMgiruysus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, pi. 110. 



C\hloroneTpes\ seruginosus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 22 (ex Lichten- 

 stein manuscript); nomen nudum! 



Chloronerpes seruginosus GnAY, List Picidss Brit. Mus., 1868, 104 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz). — ScLATER, Cat. Am. 'Birds, 1862, 339 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Sumi- 

 CHRAST, La Naturaleza, v, 1882, 240, part (Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Hargitt, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 81 (Tampico, and Sierra Madre above 

 Victoria, Tamaulipas; Cordova, Jalapa, Orizaba, and Coatepec, Vera Cruz; 

 Atoyac, Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 

 406.— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 629 (Alta Mira, Tamau- 

 lipas).— Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 75 (Rampahuila, Rio Santa, Rio de la 

 Cruz, Rio Martinez, Santa Leonora, Guiaves, Galindo, and Potrero, Tamauli- 

 pas). 



[Chloronerpes] aeruginosus Lichtenstein, Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854, 76. 



[Chloronerpes] seruginosus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 124 (Consp. 

 Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 9).— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 198, no. 8775.— Scla- 

 TER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 

 1900, 205. 



C\hloronerpes] aeruginasus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 161 

 (Jalapa). 



a According to Sumichrast. i> Ten specimens. 



