COLAPTES CHET SO IDES. 
MALHERBE'S GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER. 
GEOPICUS CHRYSOIDES. Malh. Rev. et Mag. Zool. (1852), p. 553.— Ib. Mon. Picidae. 
COLAPTES CHRYSOIDES. Bated. B. of N. Amer., p. 125. 
Although combining in its plumage the characteristic markings of C. Auratus and C. Mexicanus, yet the present species is distinct from 
both, and rather inferior to each of its relatives in size. Malhekbe first described the bird, from a specimen of a female contained in the Paris 
Museum, and although he was led to believe it came from America, he was unable to learn the locality 'where it tv as killed. It was obtained by 
Mr. Schott, on the line of the Mexican boundary survey, but here, also, the precise locality was not given. Mr. Xaxtus, however, procured it at 
Cape St. Lucas in Lower California, where he reported it to be very abundant. 
No account whatever has been recorded of either its economy or habits, but without doubt, in both respects, it resembles those species to 
which it is so intimately related. 
It may be described as follows: Top of head light reddish brown ; upper parts ashy brown, barred transversely with black. Rump white; 
upper tail-coverts white, conspicuously barred with black. Shafts of wing feathers, and entire under part of wing gamboge-yellow. Throat ash, 
a broad mustache of red on side of throat ; a broad band on upper part of breast, and round spots on feathers of under parts black. Under 
parts light brown. Tail black, basal portions yellow. Bill black. Female without mustache. The figures are size of life. 
