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LINNEOPICUS HERMINIERI (Lesson). 



GXTADELOTTPE WOODPECKER. 



Adults (sexes alilce) .—Above uniform glossy blue-black, the pileum 

 less glossy, less bluish; under parts slightly glossy bluish or greenish 

 black, the chest and median portion of breast and upper abdomen 

 more or less strongly suffused or tinged' with dusky red or maroon; 

 bill black; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (sldns), 228-263 (243); wing, 131.5-138 

 (135); tail, 80-99.5 (88); culmen, 32.5-39.5 (33.4); tarsus, 26-28 

 (27.1); outer anterior toe, 21-24 (22.9).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 224-242 (234); wing, 125.5-132.5 

 (128.6); tail, 77-93 (87.5); culmen, 26-28 (27.1); tarsus, 23-24.5 

 (23.7); outer anterior toe, 19-20.5 (19.8).^ 

 Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. 

 Picus herminieri Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 228 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; 

 coll. Paris Mus.). — Des Murs, Icon. Orn., livr. 7, Dec, 1846, tab. contents, 

 pi. 38. — SuNDEVALL, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 51. 

 Melampicos herminieri Malherbe, Mem. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 365. 

 Melampicus herminieri Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 198; iv, 1862, pi. 100, 



fig. 1. 

 [Melanerpes] herminieri Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 115. — Gray, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 201, no. 8822.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210. 

 M[elanerpes] herminierii Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picidse, 1854, 381, 



pi. 643, figs. 4280-4281. 

 Melanerpes herminieri Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 117. — Har- 

 GiTT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 163.— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 12, 133. 

 [Melanerpes] Vherminieri Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100. — 



Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 20. 

 Melanerpes Vherminieri Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 459, 487. — 

 Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 377; viii, 1891, 48; Birds West Ind., 1889, 172; Cat. 

 West Ind. Birds, 1892, 104. 

 Linneopicus herminieri Malherbe, Nouv. Classif. Pic, 1850, 53. 

 [Linnxipicus] herminieri Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 10). 



Genus ASYNDESMUS Coues. 



Asyndesmus Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 55. (Type, by original desig- 

 nation, Picus torquatus ^^\\son= Asyndesmus levjisi Riley.) 



Kather large Picidae (wing 162-180 mm.), resembling Melanerpes, 

 but with relatively longer wing, more slender and less distinctly 

 ridged bill, and with plumage of under parts and hindneck peculiar 

 (coarse and hair-like) . 



Bill about as long as head, rather slender, about as deep as broad at 

 nostrils, more compressed terminally ; culmen slightly but distinctly 

 convex, not sharply ridged; gonys more than tmce as long as man- 

 dibular rami, nearly straight, not prominent basally, rather distinctly 



o Ten specimens. b Five specimens. 



3022°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 8 



