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Genus COLAPTES Swainson. (Page 280, pi. LXXXYL, fig. 2.) 



Species. 

 Common Characters. — Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts brownish, barred 

 with black ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, the latter broadly barred or 

 otherwise marked with black ; outer surface of quills and upper surface of tail- 

 feathers black, the shafts of these feathers bright yellow or red ; under surface 

 of quills and tail-feathers paler yellow or reddish, the latter with a broad black 

 terminal band; lower parts pale vinaceous, marked with small roundish or 

 cordate spots of black, the chest with a large transverse, somewhat creseentic, 

 patch of black. Adult males with a broad malar stripe, or " mustache," of black or 

 red. 



a 1 . Shafts, etc., yellow. 



b l . Occiput with a red patch ; throat light pinkish cinnamon, or vinaceous; top 



of head grayish ; male with the " mustache" deep black. 



c\ Eump immaculate white; length 12.00-12.75, wing 5.50-6.60 (6.15), 



tail 4.00-4.95 (4.45), exposed culmen 1.25-1.40 (1.33). Eggs 1.10 X 



.85. Sab. Eastern North America, north to Hudson's Bay and 



Alaska (Yukon Valley, to Sitka), west to Great Plains. 



412. C. auratus (Linn.). Flicker. 

 c 2 . Kump thickly spotted with black ; wing 5.35-5.75, tail 4.30-4.80. Sab. 

 Cuba. 



C. chrysocaulosus Gttndl. Cuban Flicker. 1 

 b 2 . Occiput without any red; throat ash-gray; top of bead cinnamon-brown; 

 "mustache" of male bright red; length 11.20-11.70. wing 5.35-6.15 

 (5.75), tail 3.75-4.30 (4.05), exposed culmen 1.30-1.55 (1.38). Eggs 1.10 

 X -83. Sab. Southeastern California, Lower California, southern Ari- 

 zona, and Sonora 414. C. chrysoides (Malh.). Gilded Flicker. 



a 2 . Shafts, etc., red. 



b l . Top of head dull brown, grayish brown, or brownish gray, becoming per- 

 ceptibly grayer (or less distinctly brown) on hind-neck, more rusty or 

 cinnamon-colored on forehead, lores, and superciliary region ; rump usu- 

 ally immaculate white ; back, etc., grayish brown, varying to a burnt- 

 umber tint, narrowly barred with black, these bars always much nar- 

 rower than the brown interspaces ; " mustache" of male bright scarlet. 

 c 1 . Exposed culmen usually much less than 1.60 ; wing averaging decidedly 

 more than 6.25 ; crown grayish brown, or brownish gray, becoming 

 browner anteriorly ; rump pure white, or slightly tinged with deli- 

 cate pinkish ; shafts pure orange-vermilion, or scarlet, the inner 

 webs of quills and under surface of tail deep pinkish red, varying 

 to orange-red. 

 d 1 . Lighter colored, with back grayish brown, lower parts pale vina- 



1 Colaptea chryaocaulosua Gundl., Ann. Lye. N, Y. vi. 1858, 273. 



