BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 261 
248 (alp. reg. Orizaba, Vera Cruz)—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.- 
Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 185 (Nuri, Sonora; Ciudéd, Durango; Sierra de San 
Luis Potos{; Sierra de Bolafios and Sierra de Nayarft, Jalisco; Sierra Nevada 
de Colima; Tenango del Valle, Rio Frio, Ixtaccihudtl, and San Salvadér 
el Verde, Puebla; Temfscaltepec; La Parada, Oaxaca; Omilteme and 
Amula, Guerrero). 
[Picolaptes] leucogaster Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 179, no. 2441,—SciaTER and 
Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 68.—Suarrz, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 83. 
T[hripobrotus] leucogaster CaBANIS and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 37, foot- 
note. 
'[Thripobrotus] leucogaster HEINE and ReicHENow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 
137. 
Picolaptes atripes Eyton, Jardine’s Contr. Orn., 1851, 76 (‘‘South America”). 
[Picolaptes] atripes Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 179, no. 2446. 
PICOLAPTES AFFINIS AFFINIS (Lafresnaye). 
ALLIED WOODHEWER. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum and hindneck brown (light sepia or 
dark raw-umber), each feather margined terminally with black or 
dusky and with a central guttate or diamond-shaped spot of dull 
buffy; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts plain raw-umber brown, 
the upper back sometimes with a few narrow streaks of pale buffy; 
rump and upper tail-coverts plain cinnamon-rufous; tail and remiges 
chestnut or rufous-chestnut, the primaries and distal secondaries 
edged, more or less distinctly, with brown, the exposed (terminal) 
portion of inner webs of longer primaries dusky grayish brown; sides 
of head and neck buff, streaked (the feathers edged or margined) with 
dusky; chin and throat immaculate buff, the extreme lower throat 
and upper chest also buff, but the feathers margined with black; rest 
of under parts light raw-umber brown, each feather with a broad 
central elliptical or obtusely cuneate streak of buff, margined with 
black, these markings becoming gradually less distinct posteriorly, 
the black marginal lines nearly obsolete on flanks and under tail- 
coverts, the general color of the latter more fulvescent or cinnamo- 
meous; under wing-coverts ochraceous-buff (passing into buff on 
margin of wing) slightly flecked with dusky; inner webs of remiges 
light cinnamon-rufous, with terminal portion (extensively) dusky 
brownish gray; bill pale grayish or yellowish horn color, usually 
somewhat darker or more brownish basally; iris brown; legs and feet 
dusky horn color (in dried skins). 
