I 76 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Nesoceleus fernandinae (Vig.). 



Colaptes fernandiiice Vig. Zool. Journ. 1S27, p. 445. — D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 148 (1840).— Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 

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

 GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 295 (1866); ib. J. f. O. 

 1S74, p. 155.— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 202 (1870). 



Picus fernandtncB V^ XGi^. Isis, 1829, p. 517. 



Colaftcs fernatidina Denny, P. Z. S. 1847, p, 39. 



Geopicus feriiandims Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, p. 359; ib. Mon. 

 Pic. II, p. 273 (1862). 



Colaptcs fei-nandice YL-Eicn. Handb. Oin. p. 415, No. 975 (1S54). 



Nesoceleus fernandince ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. loi (1873). — 

 Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. Male; — Top of the head pale yellowish brown, each feather 

 having a central stripe of dark brown, giving the head a delicate 

 striped appearance ; a space around the eye, extending beyond the 

 ear-coverts, pale rufous brown ; a stripe of black passes from the 

 under mandible down the sides of the throat; chin and throat 

 black, the feathers edged with yellowish white; rest of plumage 

 having the feathers banded with yellow and dark brown, brightest 

 on the underparts; under wing-coverts pale yellow, somewhat 

 marked with brownish; wings and tail dark brown, thickly banded 

 with yellow; under surface of wings and tail showing the shafts of 

 the feathers clear pale yellow, the shafts being brown on the 

 upper surface. 



Female: — Similar to the male, but having the head and cheeks 

 browner, and lacking the black stripe on the side of the throat. 



Length (skin), 12; wing, 6. 25; tail, 5; tarsus, 1; bill, 1.60. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



