322 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



Notes oe the PICIDJE 

 BY JOHN CASSIN. 



(Continued from page 204.) 



33. Campephilus Bairdii, Nobis. 



Much resembling C. principalis, but smaller and with the black anterior 

 feathers of the crest, longer than those succeeding, which are scarlet. White 

 longitudinal line on the neck reaching quite to the base of the bill. In C. 

 principalis the scarlet plumes of the crest are the longer, and the line on the 

 neck does not extend to the base of the bill, both of which characters are 

 very accurately shown in Audubon's plates, B. of Am. pi. 66, and Oct. ed. 

 iv. pi. 256. Colors of all other parts in the present bird are the same as those 

 of C. principalis. 



Total length, about 18J inches, wing 9^, tail 6| inches. 



Hab. Cuba. Spec, in Nat. Mus., Washington, from Mr. Charles Wright, 

 and Mus. Acad., Philadelphia, from Mr. R. C. Taylor. 



Mr. Wright who is now making zoological and botanical collections in 

 Cuba, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, has obtained two 

 specimens only of this bird, both of which are labelled "Monte Verde, Cuba, 

 Iris yellow." It appears to be one of the singular insular species which 

 have become well known to naturalists, and is in all respects, except size and 

 the other characters above designated, quite like C. principalis. Specimens 

 in the Acad. Mus. were presented by Mr. Richard C. Taylor, in a very inter- 

 esting collection made in the Northern part of the Island, and are precisely 

 similar to those of Mr. Wright in all particulars, showing unmistakeably the 

 constancy of the characters and points of difference from C. principalis. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this bird to Professor Baird, of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, who first directed my attention to it as a probably distinct 

 species. 



34. Campephilus Sclateri, (Malherbe.) 



Judging from a single specimen recently received from Mr. Eraser's collec- 

 tion, I much suspect that this bird is the young male of B. guafemalensis, 

 (Hartlaub.) Five specimens of the latter are in the Acad. Mus., several of 

 which have traces of the lead color at the base of the bill, which color is 

 given as that of the bill in G. Sclateri and they have, moreover, every other 

 character except the black throat. Two specimens have traces of the trans- 

 verse bands on the back, as given in M. Malherbe's plate of that species. 



35. Dendropicus africanus, (Gray.) 



Picus africanus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 18, (1831.) 



Two specimens, which I regard as male and female, of the species described 

 by Mr. Gray, as above cited, are in the Acad. Mus., and were received in Mr. 

 Duchaillu's collections from Cape Lopez and the River Camma, Western 

 Africa. The female is in adult plumage, but the male has a few yellow feath- 

 ers only on the crown and occiput, instead of the red occipital stripe de- 

 scribed by Mr. Gray, which would denote maturity. This bird belongs to the 

 same group as Picus biarmicus, Cuv., LeVaill. Ois. d'Afr. pi. 251. 252 and bears a 

 general resemblance, in colors, to that species, but the tail is clear brownish- 

 black, and the back is plain dark olive without spots. 



Female, adult. Head above clear brownish-black, stripe through the eye 

 and another from base of lower mandible and throat silky white. Upper 

 parts of body and wings brownish-olive, with some obscure, transverse bars 

 or spots of greenish-white on outer webs of shorter quills, and a few white 

 spots on wing coverts. Quills brownish-black, with about four spots of white 

 on their outer webs, and large white spots on their inner webs. Under parts 

 dark olive, with numerous circular and transversely oblong spots of white, 

 disposed to form bars on the flanks and under tail coverts. Tail browu- 



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