I 70 Cory on tJie Birds of the West Indies. 



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Genus Dryobates Boie. 



D7-yohates BoiE, Isis, 1826, p. 977. 



Dryobates villosus maynardi. 



Picus villosus Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 106 (1859). — Cory, Bds. 



Bahama I. p. 120 (1880). 

 Picus insularis Mayn. The Nat. in Florida, I, No. 4 (1885) ; not of Gould, 1862. 

 Picus villosus insularis Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 19 (1885). 

 Dryobates villosus maynardi Ridgw. Man. N. A. Bds. p. 282 (1887). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above black, with a white band dow-n the middle of 

 the back, finely lined with black ; all the quills, middle and larger 

 ■wing-coverts with numei-ous spots of white ; crown black; a patch 

 over the eye, and a stripe from the mandible to the nape white ; a 

 black stripe from the eye, passing through the cheeks, over the 

 nape, and joining the black of the back; a scarlet crescent around the 

 base of the skull, joining the white superciliary stripe; underparts 

 ashy, with the sides mottled and striped with black; two outer tail- 

 feathers white, edged and tipped with pale brown; third black, with 

 a patch of pale brown upon the outer web, the others black. 



Female; — The scarlet crescent wanting, replaced by white. 



Length, 7.25; wing, 4.20; tail, 3; tarsus, .70; bill, i. 

 Habitat. Northern Bahama Islands. 



This form differs from P. -villosus in the greater extent of 

 white in front of th^ eye, the bhick streaks on the sides of the 

 breast, and black sliaft-lines on the white feathers of the back. 



Genus Sphyrapicus Baird. 



Sphyrapicus Baird, Bds. N. A. p. loi (185S). 



Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). 



Picns varins'LiN-H. Syst. Nat. I, p. 176 (1766). — D'Orb. in La Sagra's 

 Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 141 (1840). — Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 270 

 (1847). — Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 102 (Cuba). — Newton, Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 30S (St. Croix).— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. xo6 

 (1859) (Bahamas) ; ib. Brewer, p. 396 (1S60) (Cuba). — Albrecht. 

 J. f. O. 1S62, p. 202 (Jamaica). — March. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1863, p. 28^ (Jamaica). 



^^^jV^a/Zcw.* Wct:;'/«5 GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba. I, p. 294 (1866); 

 ib. ]. i. O. 1874, p. 150 (Cuba). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. i3i 

 (1880). — A. & E. Newton, Ilandb. Jamaica, p. 109 (1881). — Cory, 

 List Bds. W. \. p. 20 (1885). 



Picas {Sphyrapicus) varius Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 65 

 (1867) (Bahamas). 



