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DydiojAcus jardinei Botjcaed, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 49 (Navaxro and 



Volcan de Irazfl, Costa Rica). 

 Drndrocopus jardinii Zeled6n, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, no. 7,' May 23, 1885, 



111 (Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 



432, part (Desengafio, Cerro de la Candelaria, San Jos6, Volcan de Irazd, 



Navarro, Cervantes, and Birris, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama), 

 [Dendrocopv^ mllosus.] Subsp. ;'. Den^ocopus jardinii Hahgitt, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 237, part (Costa Rican localities). 

 Dryobates jardinii Zelbd6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 123 (Volcan de 



Irazti). — Chbreie, Auk, ix, 1892, 327 (San 3ob6, Costa Rica). 

 D[ryobates] villosus jardinei Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 283, part (Costa 



Rica; "Veragua"). 

 Dryobates mllosus jardini Jenkins, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 168, part (Costa Rica; crit.). 

 Dendrocopus mllosus extimus Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, Jan. 30, 



1902, 33 (Boquete, Chiriqui, w. Panama, 6,000 ft. alt.; coll. E. A. and 0. 



Bangs). 

 Dryobates mllosus extimus Caeeikbe, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 588 (Costa 



Rica; habits).— Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., Om. Ser., i, no. 6, 



1910, 266 (Coliblanco, Costa Rica). — Oberholsee, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., xl, 



1911, 597, 620 (monogr.). 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS PUBESCENS (Linnaeus). 



SOUTHERN DOWNY WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum, auricular region, median portion of hiadneck, 

 sides of interscapular region, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts, black, 

 faintly glossed with bluish; four middle rectrices black, without 

 gloss; wings duU black, passing into dark brownish slaty on pri- 

 mary coverts and terminal portion of primaries, the middle coverts 

 with a rather large mesio-terminal roundish, guttate, or cuneate 

 spot of white and a sub-basal roundish or transverse spot of the 

 same; greater coverts with a roundish sub terminal spot of white 

 on outer web and a sub-basal roundish spot (concealed) of same on 

 both webs; secondaries crossed by four transverse series of roundish 

 white spots, the first concealed by greater coverts, the last smallei 

 and terminal; outer webs of primaries with similar but more elongatf 

 and quadrate spots, about four in number on longest quills besides 

 a smaller terminal spot or margin; a broad median stripe of whitt 

 on back, this sometimes shghtly streaked or flecked -with black 

 two lateral rectrices, on each side, white or duU white, with two' 

 broad black bars across distal portion, the proximal one usuallj 

 broken or interrupted; third rectrix with distal half, more oi 

 less, of outer web white, the terminal portion of inner web with on( 

 or more broad white bars or spots; nasal tufts dull white, the bristle 

 like shafts black terminally; a white supra-auricular stripe, con 

 tinued, narrowly, above eye, its posterior end in contact with t 

 bright red nuchal band; a broad subauricular stripe of white, extend 



a Sometimes there are more or less distinct indications of a third incomplete bar. 



