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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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

 the head; length (skins), 200-248 (220.5); wing, 121.5-132.5 (126.7); 

 taU, 72-87 (80.5); cuhnen, 23-26.5 (24.6); tarsus, 21.5-23.5 (22,5); 

 middle toe, 19-22.5 (20.8)." 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Santecomapam; 

 Atoyfi/c; Cuesalapa; Omealca; Uvero; Motzorongo; Orizaba; Mina- 

 titldn; Pasa Nueva; Buena Vista; Tolosa; Playa Vicente), Oaxaca 

 (Tdxtepec; Chimalapa; mountains near Santo Domingo), Tabasco 

 (Teapa), and Yucatan (Tizimin), and southward through Guatemala 

 (Choctdm; Telemto; Gualdn; Chapulco; Los Amates, Ysabal), 

 Salvad6r (La Libertad), British Honduras (Orange Walk; Toledo 

 District; near Manatee Lagoon), Honduras (Chaloma; Chamelic6n; 

 Santa Ana; San Pedro; San Pedro Sula; San Pedro Montana; 

 Omoa; Potrerillos; Juli&n), Nicaragua (Greytown; Rio San Juan; 

 Eio Grande; Chontales; Lavala and Uluce, Matagalpa; Quihli; 

 Pena Blanca), to Costa Rica (Siptirio, Talamanca; Rio Sicsola; 

 Lim6n; Pacuare; Turrialba; Guayabo,; Angostura; Gu&cimo; La 

 Vijagua). 



P[icus] castaneics Wagler, Isis, 1829, 515 (ex Lichtenstein, manuscript; coll. 



Berlin Mus. ; no locality mentioned, but cites "Pic roux raye de Cayenne Hol- 



Itodre Abreg6 d'hist. nat. 3, p. 4046"). 

 Picus caataneus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picrn., 1866, 86 (Mexico to Surinam). 



" Thirty-nine specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tan. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Seven adult males from Vera Cruz, Mexico 



One adult male from Guatemala 



Four adult males from British Honduras 



Nine adult males from Honduras (3) and Nicaragua (6) 

 Ten adult males from Costa Rica 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females from Vera Cruz 



Five adult females from Oaxaca 



Tliree adult females from Britisia Honduras 



Seven adult females from Guatemala 



Nine adult females from Honduras (3) and Nicaragua.. 

 Eight adult females from Costa Eioa 



127.2 



133 



129.8 



12&1 



129.6 



12S.4 

 126.3 

 125.3 

 126.5 

 126.6 

 12a 9 



sas 



84 

 83.2 

 80.3 

 83.8 



79 



80 



81.5 



82.8 



7&3 



249 

 2S.S 

 24.5 

 2S.3 

 25.1 



243 

 246 

 245 

 249 

 247 

 246 



22.2 



2a9 



2ai 

 22.9 



. 22.4 

 22.9 

 22.2 

 22.2 

 22.4 

 22.8 



2L8 

 2L4 

 21.1 



2a9 

 21.2 

 2L5 

 2a8 

 2a5 

 2a8 



Specimens examined from Mexico and Guatemala have, as a rule, the color of the 

 head and crest appreciably darker than those from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa 

 Rica, but examples from British Honduras are variable in this respect, some agreeing 

 with the more northeruj others with the more southern, specimens. On the whole, 

 the difference does not seem to be sufficiently marked or constant to justify the recog- 

 nition of two forms, and probably is, to a certain extent at leaat, seasonal. 



