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Island of Cuba (near Havana; San Diego de los Banos; Holquin). 



Colaptesfernandinss Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, Dec, 1827, 445 (near Havana, Cuba; 

 coll. Zool. Soc). — D'Orbigny, in La Sagra'sHist. Fis. Nat. Cuba, Aves, 1839, 

 112, pi. 24; French ed., 148. — Wagner, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 

 1841, 100.— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 39.— Bonaparte, Consp. 

 Av., i, 1850, 114. — Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 131.— Cabanis, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 104 (habits).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1860, 307.— GuNDLACH, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 295; Journ, fur 

 Om., 1874, 155 (habits).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidee, 1868, 122. 



[Colaptes] fernandinae Lichtenstein, Norn. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 77. — Bona- 

 parte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126. — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 

 334.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 202, no. 8833. 



C[olaptes] fernandinae Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 415, 

 pi. 667, fig. 4427. 



P[icus] fernandinae "Wagler, Isis, 1829, 517. 



Geopicos fernandinae Malherbe, Mem. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 359. 



Geopicus fernandinae Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 273; iv, 1862, pi. 113, 

 figs. 4, 5. 



[Nesoceleuslfernandinae ScLATERand Salvin, Nona. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101. — Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 20.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 226. 



Nesoceleus fernandinae Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 380; Birds West Ind., 1889, 176; Cat. 

 West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 128.— Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 

 1890, 419. 



Nesoeleus fernandinae Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 144. 



Picus fernandi Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 78. 



Genus MELANERPES Swainson. 



Melanerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 316. (Type, by orig. design., 

 Picus erythrocephalus Linnaeus.) 



Melampicos Malherbe, Mem. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 363. (TjT)e, as fixed by 

 Strickland, 1850, and Gray, 1855, Picus erythrocephalus Linnaeus.) 



Melanopicos (emendation) Malherbe, Nouv. Classif. Picin., 1850, 46; see Strick- 

 land, in Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 19. 



Melampicus (emendation) Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 192. 



Medium-sized Picidse (wing 112-150 mm.), with outer hind toe 

 shorter than anterior front toe, supranasal ridge distinct only on 

 basal half of maxilla, plumage of throat and chest hair-hke, crimson, 

 that of breast either hair-like and crimson or else blended and white, 

 and back glossy bluish or greenish black. 



Bill about as long as head, rather stout, a little wider than deep at 

 anterior end of nostrils (or about as wide in M. erythrocephalus); cul- 

 men slightly but distinctly convex, distinctly ridged; gonys nearly 

 twice as long as mandibular rami (M. erythrocephalus) or about one 

 and a half times as long {M. portoricensis) , convex and prominent 

 basally, straight and ascending terminally, distinctly ridged (at least 

 terminally) ; supranasal ridge distmct for basal half or less of maxilla. 

 Nostril partly covered by small antrorse bristly prefrontal plumes, 

 rather large, broadly oval, situated about midwa}^ between culmen 

 and tomium. Feathers of malar apex bristh', antrorse, those of 

 chin with bristly semiantrorse tips. Wmg rather long, the longest 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by more than length of exposed cul- 



