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M[elanerpes] xantholarynx Reichenbach, Handb. Scans., Picinae, 1854, 384, 



no. 887, pi. 643, figs. 4293-94 (Mexico?). 

 Melanerpes xantholarynx Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidae, 1868, 116.— Hargitt, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 155 (Mexico?). — Salvin and Godman, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 426. 

 [Melanerpes] xantholarynx Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 201, no. 8817. — Sharpe, 



Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210. 

 Melampicus xantholarynx Malherbe, Men. Picid., ii, 1862, 204; iv, 1862, pi. 100, 



fig. 6. 

 Picus xantholarynx Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 51. 

 Balanosphyra xantholarynx Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.; xxiv, Feb. 24, 



1911, 35. 



Genus LINNEOPICUS Malherbe. 



Linneopicus Malherbe, "Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49"; Nouv. Classif. Picin., 



July, 1850, 52. (Type, Picus herminieri Lesson.) 

 Linnseipicus (emendation) Bonaparte, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.), 4 ser., i, 1854, 



129; Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 11). 

 Linnoeipicits (emendation) Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, p. xlviii. 

 Linneipicus (emendation) Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, p. liii. 



Medium-sized Picidse (wing 125-138 mm.) resembling Melanerpes 

 but differing in relatively longer tail (more than two-thirds as long 

 as wing), with more narrowly but less abruptly acuminate rectrices, 

 shorter and more rounded wing with very large and broad outer- 

 most (tenth) primary (nearly half as long as ninth), feathered orbital 

 region, and uniform black coloration. 



BDl about as long as head, rather slender, the culmen faintly 

 convex toward base, straight terminally, distinctly but not sharply 

 ridged; gonys much longer than mandibular rami, straight or nearly 

 so, ascending terminally rather prominent basally, distinctly ridged 

 terminall}^; supranasal ridge very indistinct, quite obsolete on anterior 

 half of maxilla. Nostril rather large, broadly oval, situated about 

 midway between culmen and tomium, partly covered by small 

 antrorse bristly prefrontal feathers; feathers of malar apex bristle- 

 like, antrorse, the feathers of chin with long, semiantrorse bristly 

 tips. Orbital region almost completely feathered. Wing moderately 

 long, the longest primaries exceeding secondaries by only one-fifth 

 the length of wing, much rounded, the fifth, sixth, and seventh 

 primaries longest, ninth shorter than fourth, the tenth nearly half as 

 long as ninth, distinctly bowed or arched, about one-sixth as w^ide 

 as long. Tail more than two-thirds as long as wing, graduated for 

 one-third its length, or more, the rectrices gradually narrowed ter- 

 minally, tliQ middle ones with tip narrowly cuneate. Tarsus nearly 

 as long as outer hind toe with claw, rather slender; outer hind toe 

 distinctly shorter than outer front toe. 



Coloration. — Uniform glossy greenish black, the under parts duller 

 black washed on chest and breast with dark crimson or maroon. 



Range. — Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



