Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 17^ 



succeeded by a band of dull black, which is in turn replaced by red 

 on the base of the skull, extending to the nape. 



Length, 11.50; wing, 5. So; tail, 4; tarsus, i; bill, 1.50. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Colaptes Swains. 



Colapies Swainson, Zool. Jouru. Ill, p. 353, Dec. 1S27. 



Colaptes chrysocaulosus Gundl. 



Colaptes chrysocaulosus Gundl. Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 273 

 (185S).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860).— 

 Albrecht, J. f. O. iSSr, p. 210. — CjUndl. R;p2rt. Fisico-Nat. 

 Cuba, I, p. 294 (1866) ; ib. J. f O. 1874, p. 153.— Scl. & Salv. Nom. 

 Avium Naotr. p. loi (1873).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (18S5). 



Colaptes auratus Cab. J. f. O 1856, p. 103. — B^tEWER, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. VII, p. 307 C1860). 



Colaptes auratus var. chrysocaulosus Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 

 Bds. II, p. 575 (1874)- 



Sp. Char. Mile: — Top of head gray; a nuchal patch of red ; a malir 

 stripe of black ; sides of the head and throat pale chocolate ; a piitch 

 of black on the breast; underparts dull yellowish white, heavily 

 spotted with black; upper surface pale chocolate brown, banded 

 with black; upper surface of primaries brown, having the shafts 

 bright yellow; under surface of wings pale yelloAv; tail dark 

 brown, some of the feathers showing narrow bands on the edges ; 

 under surface of tail yellow, feathers tipped with black; bill black 

 and feet dark broAvn. 



The female resembles the male, but differs from it in lacking the 

 black malar stripe, having the throat and sides of the head en- 

 tirely pale chocolate brown. 



Length, 10.50; wing, 5.40; tail, 4.50; tarsus, .80; bill, 1.20. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Colaptes gundlachi Cory. 



Colaptes gimdlachi Cory, Auk, III, pp. 498, 502 (18S6). 



Sp. Char. — Resembles Colapies chrysocaulosus, but is smaller; the yellow of the 

 quills and tail much brighter; under surface of outer tail feathers dis- 

 tinctly banded; feathers of the rump, white, heavily blotched with black; 

 shafts of the quills and tail very bright yellow; first primary much longe' 

 than in the Cuban species. 



Length, 8.90; wing, 5.20; tail, 4; tarsus, .85 ; bill, 1. 10. 



Habitat. Grand Cayman. 



Genus Nesoceleus Scl. & Salv. 



JVesocchus Sclatkr & Salvin. .\pp. Noni. Avium Neotr. p. 155 (1S73). 



