Cory on fke Birds of tJie West Ttidtes. I 7 1 



Recorded from the Bahama Islands, Jamaica, Cuba, and St. 

 Croix. 



Genus Xiphidiopicus Bonap. 



JYiJi/ii'dio^icus Bo-nap ARTK, "Consp. Vol. Zygodact. p. 11 (1S54)." 



Xiphidiopicus percussus (Temm.). 



Picas percussus Temm. PI. Col. pp. 390, 424 (1S20-39). — Vigors, ZooI. 



Journ. Ill, p. 444 (1827). — D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 



Ois. p. 143 (1840).— Thiene. J. f. O. 1S57, P- 153- 

 Dcndrobates fercussus Gray, Gen. Bds. II, p. 437 (1844-49). 

 CJiloropicus fercussus Malh. M^m. Acad. Metz, 184S-49, p. 352. 

 Picus ruppellii'^ XG^L. Sjst. Av. sp. 29 (1027). 

 Chloronerpes percussusBv, Consp. I, p. iiS (1S50). — Cab. J. f. O. 1S56, 



p. 102. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (1S60). — 



GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 294 (1S66) ; ib. J. f. O. 



1S74, p. 151. 

 Xiphidiopicus percussus Bp. Con?,^. Yo\. Zygodact. p. 11 (1S54). — ScL. 



Cat. Am. Bds. p. 339 (1862).— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 199 (1S70). 



— ScL. «& Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 100 (1S73). — Cory, List Bds. 



W. I. p. 20 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Forehead dull white, extending in a superciliary stripe down 

 the sides of the head to the neck; top of the head bright red ; a nar- 

 row stripe of smoky black passing from the eye down the sides of 

 the neck ; a narrow stripe of black on the centre of the throat from the 

 chin, succeeded on the lower throat and upper breast by a broad 

 patch of red ; sides of throat dull white ; back and upper surface of 

 wings yellowish green; middle portion of breast pale yellow; feath- 

 ers on the sides of the body barred with smoky black and white, 

 showing a tinge of yellow; primaries dark brown, blotched with dull 

 white on the edges of the webs; inner primaries and secondaries 

 heavily edged with pale green on the outer web; two central tail- 

 feathers dull black, showing a silvery tinge when held in the light; 

 under surface of the tail showing feathers with narrow alternate 

 bands of gray and pale brown. 



The female differs from the male in having the top of the head 

 black, the feathers showing narrow shaft lines of white; the red 

 restricted to the base of the skull. 



Length, 9; wing, 5; tail, 3.50; tarsus, .So; bill, .90. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Melanerpes Swains. 

 Mclanerpes Swainson, F. B. A. K, iSii. 



