Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 587 



C. H. Lankester Collection : San Jose. 



Carnegie Museum: Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford); Guacimo, Cuabre, 



Rio Sicsola, Carrillo, El Hogar (Carriker). Eighteen skins. 



This species is very common over the whole of the Caribbean slope, 

 from near sea-level up to 4,000 feet, where it occurs in small numbers, 

 being much more abundant below 3,000 feet. It is not often found 

 in the thick forest, much preferring open woodland, wooded pastures, 

 and the banks of rivers. I found it very abundant at Guapiles. 



321. Melanerpes wagleri wagleri Salvin and Godman. 



Picus tricolor Wagler, Isis, 1829, 512. 



Melanerpes tricolor Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, 174 (Panama 

 and Colombia). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1890-1, 47 (Palmar, La- 

 garto, and Buenos Aires de Terraba). 



Melanerpes wagleri Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1895,416 

 (Panama to Venezuela). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIX, 1906, 107 

 (Pozo Azul de Pirris, one $, July 9, 1903 [Underwood]); Auk, XXIV, 1907, 

 292 (Boruca, Paso Real, and El Pozo de Terraba [Underwood]). 



Carnegie Museum : Buenos Aires de Terraba, Sept., 1907 (Carriker). 



Five specimens. 



This woodpecker was first taken in Costa Rica by Geo. K. Cherrie, 

 in the Terraba Valley in 1 890-1, and recorded by him (Expl. Zool. 

 en C. R., 47). The next record we have is the bird taken by Under- 

 wood at Pozo Azul de Pirris in 1903. In 1907 Underwood took a 

 large series of birds in the Terraba Valley, where it is one of the com- 

 monest woodpeckers. I saw quite a number of them around Buenos 

 Aires, where it frequents open woodland along the streams. 



From the known records it would seem that like M. chrysauchen, it 

 is present in Costa Rica only in the extreme southwestern portion of 

 the Pacific lowlands. 



322. Melanerpes hoffmanni (Cabanis). 



Centurus hoffmanni Cabanis, Jour, fiir Orn., 1862, 322 (Costa Rica [Hoffmann 

 and Frantzius]). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 131 (San Jose 

 [J. Carmiol], Grecia [F. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 364 

 (Grecia). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 49 (San Jose and Puntarenas). — 

 Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 124 (San Jose, Cartago and Ala- 

 juela). — Cherrie, Auk, I X, 1892, 327 (San Jose). 



Melanerpes hoffmanni Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, 181 (San 

 Jose [Calleja and Carmiol], Puntarenas [O. Salvin]). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1895, 419 (Nicaragua and Costa Rica). — Under- 

 wood, Ibis, 1896, 443 (Miravalles). 



