BIBDS OP KOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 153 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 260-303 (284); wing, 162.5-169 

 (166); tail, 101-111 (106.1); culmen, 29-32.5 (30.4); tarsus, 23.5-26 

 (24.7); outer anterior toe, 21-23.5 (22.2)." 



Western Mexico, in States of Sonora (Sierra de Alamos), Sinaloa 

 (Mazatl&n; Ros&rio; Culiac&n; Escuinapa; Rio Juana Gomez), Jalisco 

 (Plains of Colima), Colima (Rio Tupila), Guerrero (Acapulco; Aca- 

 huitzotla; Sihuatenejo; Papaya; La LagunUla) and western Oaxaca 

 (Putla), and Territory of Tepic (San Bias). 



Pints scapukais Vigoes, Zool. Joum., iv, 1829, 354 (San Bks, Tepic, w. Mexico; 

 coll. Zool. See); Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' 1839, 23 (San Bias).— Baied, in Rep. 

 Stansbuiy's Surv. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 333. — Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 

 1866, 8, part. 



P[m;u«] scapularis Waglee, Isis, 1829, 509. 



D[ryocopus] scapularis Ghat, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 436. 



[Dryocopiis] scapularis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 133, part. — Gray, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 118, no. 8638.— Sclatee and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 

 99, part. 



Dryocopus scapularis Lawebnob, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 293 (Mazatlan, 

 Sinaloa; Plains of Colima and Rio Tupila, Colima). 



C[ampephiliis] scapularis Reichenbach, Handb., Scansores, Picinae, 1854, 394 

 (San Bias). 



[Ihiopiais] scapularis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 122 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 8). 



CeophlcBus scapukais Haegitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1890, 510, part (Sierra 

 de Alamos, Sonora; Mazatlan; San Bias; Putla, w. Oaxaca) — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 450, part (Sierra de Alamos; 

 Mazatlan; San Bias; Plains of Colima; Rio Tupila; Putla; Acapulco, Guer- 

 rero).- MiLLEE (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 352 (Escuinapa 

 and Rio Juana Gomez, s. Sinaloa). — Bailey (H. H.), Auk, xxiii, 1906, 388 

 (San Bias, Tepic). 



C[eophl<Bus'\ scapularis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 290, part. 



[Ceophlmusl scapularis Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 232, part. 



Genus PHLCEOTOMUS Cabanis and Heine. 



Driopicus (not Dryopicos Malherbe, 1849, nor Dryopicus Malherbe, 1850) Bona- 

 parte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 122 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 8). (Type, 

 Picus pileatus Linnaeus; see Stejneger, Auk, ii, 1885, 52.) 



Bylatomus (not Hylatoma Latreille, 1804) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 107. (Type, by orig. desig., Picus pileatus Linnseus.) 



Hylotomus (emendation) Cabanis, Joum. fur Om., 1862, 176. 



Phloeotomus 6 Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, July, 1863, 102. 

 (Type, by monotypy, Pieus pileatus Linnseus.) 



Very large Picidse (wing about 210-255 mm.) resembling CeopMaus, 

 but diflEering in much more depressed bill with straighter culmen and 

 relatively longer gonys (nearly to quite twice as long as mandibular 

 rami), greater development of postnasal (prefrontal) antrorse plumes, 



" Nine specimens. 



6 "Aus ^Xaidc (Rinde) imd li^cu (schneiden) zusammengesetzt." (Cabanis and 

 Heine.) 



