BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 99 



similar, but black interspaces narrower (about as wide as the yellow- 

 ish bars); upper tail-coverts bright crimson, with concealed portion 

 blackish; tail uniform black; wings black, broadly barred with light 

 yellow (of varying hue), the bars brighter or clearer yellow (nearly 

 saffron) on secondaries, paler (sometimes yellowish white) on wing- 

 coverts and primaries; foreneck and upper chest plain usually light 

 smoky brown (nearly Isabella color), but varying in color from oliva- 

 ceous Isabella color to nearly russet, anteriorly passing gradually into 

 gray of throat, posteriorly passing into light yellowish olive-green, 

 strongly tinged with olive-yellow or wax yellow, on flanks, abdomen, 

 and anal region, the under tail-coverts pale grayish olive margined 

 with pale yellow and with more or less distinct narrow shaft-streaks 

 of darker; under surface of tail pale glaucous olive or yellowish gray; 

 under wing-coverts and axillars pale browmish gray or grayish brown, 

 tinged with pale yellowish; inner webs of remiges dusky, with large 

 spots of 3^ellowish white, except on distal half (more or less) of longer 

 and greater part of outermost primaries; bill dull blackish, the man- 

 dible paler (grayish in life?); legs and feet dusky in dried skins; 

 length (skins), 214-251 (228); wing, 115.5-130 (120.2); tail, 76-87 

 (81.9); culmen, 32-39 (33.6); tarsus, 23-25 (23.9); outer anterior 

 toe, 18.5-21 (20.1).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but red on head and neck 

 confined to nape, hindneck, and post-auricular region, the crown and 

 occiput uniform black; length (sldns), 200-240 (216); wing, 108-123 

 (117.9); tail, 76.5-94.5 (85); culmen, 25-28 (26.2); tarsus, 21-23.5 

 (22.2); outer anterior toe, 17-19 (18.1).« 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female (the crown black, with- 

 out red in first plumage), bars on back, etc., less sharply defined, and 

 under parts much more grayish. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but black of crown 

 more or less suffused with red, sometimes with minute mesial streaks 

 of white. 



Island of Haiti (Le Coup and Port au Prince, Haiti; San Francisco 

 Mountains, Aguacate, Honduras, Santo Domingo City, Puerta Plata, 

 Catare, Cafia Honda, El Valle, Sanchez, Maniel, Samana, and La 

 Canita, Santo Domingo). 



Picas sZnaiws MiJLLER, Vollst. Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, 91 (Santo Domingo; based 

 on Le Pic Rayc, Picus dominicensis striatus, Brisson, Orn., iv, 65, pi. 4, fig. 1; 

 Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 281). 



[Piciis] striatus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 17 (based on PI. Enl., 281).— 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 427.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 238. 



Picus striatus Vieillot, Ois.-Am.Sept., ii, 1807, 61, pl. 114; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xxvi,1818, 90.— Valenciennes, Dict.Sci. Nat., xl, 1826,173.— Drapiez, 

 Diet. Class., xiii, 1828, 505.— Cuvier, Regne Aniin., i, 1829, 451.— Lesson, 

 Traits d'Orn., 1831, 227; Compl. Buffon, ix, 1837, 324.— Bryant, Proc. Soc. 

 N. H., xi, 1867, 96.— Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 52. 



o Ten specimens. 



