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latter broadly barred or transversely spotted with black; tail black, 

 the rectrices narrowly edged with dull whitish or with narrow bars 

 of the same along edge, the outermost one with distinct bars for 

 most of its length; shafts of rectrices bright chrome yellow basally; 

 under side of tail saffron yellow, extensively tipped with black; loral, 

 orbital, and auricular regions, chin, throat, and foreneck, uniform 

 grayish vinaceous or deep vinaceous-cinnamon; malar region deep 

 black; a large semilunar or transversely ovoid patch of deep black 

 on chest; rest of under parts pale maize or naples yellow medially, 

 passing into pale buffy brown or pale cinnamon laterally, each feather 

 with a large subterminal or roundish spot of black; under wing- 

 coverts light buff-yellow, those along edge of wing much paler and 

 irregularly barred with black; inner webs of remiges pale buff-yellow 

 for basal half (more or less), olive-dusky distally, strongly glossed 

 (except along edge) with light chrome yellow; bill dusky (in dried 

 skins); legs and feet dusky grayish or horn color (in dried skins); 

 length (skins), 257-290 (274); wing, 136.5-146.5 (142.3); tail, 96.5-111 

 (105.4) ; culmen, 32.5-36.5 (34); tarsus, 26.5-28 (27.1); outer anterior 

 toe, 20.5-23.5 (22.2).° 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but black malar patch 

 replaced by the general vinaceous-cinnamon color of throat, etc.; 

 length (skins), 250-280 (268); wing, 133-145 (141.1); tail, 100-108 

 (104.2); culmen, 32.5-35.5 (33.3); tarsus, 25-28.5 (26.8); outer ante- 

 rior toe, 21-23 (21.9).'^ 



Island of Cuba (Guama; El Guama; Remedios; San Diego de los 

 Banos; Trinidad). 



Colaptes auratus (not Cuculus auratus Linnaeus) Vigors, Zool. Joum., iii, 1828, 

 444 (Cuba). — D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Fis. PoL y Nat. Cuba, Aves, 

 1839, 110; French ed., p. 144.— Denny, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1847, 39.— 

 Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 131. — Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., 

 1856, 103 (habits).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— 

 GuNDLACH, Joum. fiir Om., 1861, 415 (crit.). 



P[icus] auratus Wagler, Isis, 1829, 516 (Cuba). 



Colaptes chrysocaulosus Gundlach, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vi, 1858, 273 



( , Cuba); Joum. fiir Om., 1874, 153 (habits); Contr. Om. Cubana, 



1876, 274; Om. Cubana, ed. 1895, 142.— Albrecht, Joum. fiir Ora., 1861, 

 210.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 330 (synonymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 175; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 128.— Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xviii, 1890, 15.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 301 (near 

 Trinidad, s. Cuba). 



[Colaptes] chrysocaulosus Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., 1861, 334; Report. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 294.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101. — Cory, List Birds West 

 Ind., 1885, 20.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201. 



C[olaptes'\ chrysocaulosus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 295. 



[Colaptes auratus] var. chrysocaulosus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 575. 



P}icMs] chrysocaulosus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vi, 1858, 276 (crit.). 



<i Ten specimens. 



