BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 25 



COLAPTES CHRYSOCAULOSUS GUNDLACHI (Cory). 



GRAND CAYMAN FLICKER. 



Similar to 0. c. chrysocaulosus, but decidedly smaller and black 

 malar patch of male averaging smaller and narrower.*^ 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 225-235 (232); wing, 127-132.5; tail, 

 75-90.5 (85.2); culmen, 30-33 (31.3); tarsus, 23-25 (23.8); outer 

 anterior toe, 20-20.5 (20.2).^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 240-260 (250); wing, 127-131 

 (129.5); tail, 86.5-91.5 (88.1); culmen, 29-32.5 (30.6); tarsus, 24-25 

 (24.5); outer anterior toe, 19.5-20.5 (20). '^ 



Island of Grand Cayman, south of Cuba. 



Colaptes gundlachi Cory, Auk, iii, Oct., 1886, 498, 502 (Grand Cayman, W. I.; 

 coll. C. B. Cory); Birds West Ind., 1889, 175; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 12, 104, 129, 143.— Hargftt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 15.— Nicoll, 

 Ibia, 1904, 584 (crit.).— Lowe, Ibis, 1909, 341; 1911, 150. 



{Cola'ptes] gundlachi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201. 



COLAPTES CHRYSOIDES CHRYSOIDES (Malherbe). 



GILDED FLICKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum, together with loral and superciliary regions, 

 dull vinaceous-cinnamon or vinaceous-fawn color, passing into 

 vinaceous-drab on hindneck; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and sec- 

 ondaries deep ecru-drab, rather narrowly barred with black (the black 

 bars always less than half as wide as the drab interspaces) except on 

 secondaries (where much broader) ; rump white, mostly immaculate, 

 but laterally transversely spotted with black; upper tail-coverts 

 white, broadly barred with black, sometimes with U- or V-shaped 

 markings instead of bars, or with both; tail black, the basal half or 

 more of inner web of middle pair of rectrices notched or barred along 

 edge with pale brownish gray, the outer web of one or two middle 

 pairs narrowly edged basally with dull whitish, the outermost (devel- 

 oped) pair with a terminal spot and (usually) several spots along edge 

 of distal portion of outer web, of dull whitish or pale brownish, the 

 shafts of all the rectrices (except middle pair, which are dull yellowish 

 or brownish basally) bright yellow basally (sometimes for nearly 

 basal half); primaries dull black with bright cadmium or chrome 

 yellow shafts, the outer web usually with more or less distinct spots 

 of pale yellowish drab or dull yellowish on proximal or middle portion 

 (or both), at least on proximal quills; rictal, suborbital, and auricular 

 regions, sides of neck, chin, throat, and foreneck uniform gray 

 (nearest no. 7, or between this and smoke gray), passing posteriorly 



O' The alleged color-characters mentioned in the original description are not appar- 

 ent in the series examined by me. 

 ^ Five specimens, 

 c Four specimens. 



