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tance from tip to base of tomium. Nostril small, narrowly elliptical, 

 situated about midway between culmen and tomium, covered by 

 small, hair-like, antrorse prefrontal feathers. Feathers of malar apex 

 antrorse, with bristly tips, those of chin with distinct though very slen- 

 der antrorse or seniiantrorse bristle-like tips. Orbital region naked 

 for a narrow space around eye, the margin of eyelids unfeathered. 

 Wing moderate, rounded, the longest primaries exceeding secondaries 

 by less than one-fifth the length of wing; fifth, sixth, and seventh pri- 

 maries longest, the ninth shorter than second, the tenth (outermost) 

 about half as long as ninth. Tail about three-fourths as long as wing, 

 the rectrices relatively very broad, the middle ones short-acuminate 

 at tip. Tarsus shorter than either outer toe with claw; outer hind 

 toe decidedly longer than outer front toe. 



Coloration. — Above mostly plain grayish green, the tail gray obso- 

 letely barred with darker, the primaries blackish spotted with grayish 

 green and dull whitish; under parts yellow, streaked anteriorly and 

 laterally, barred posteriori}^, wdth blackish; sides of head white, 

 except an auricular stripe of blackish or grayish; a narrow black 

 stripe on throat, confluent \\dth a red jugular patch; adult male 

 with pileum and hindneck bright red, adult female with crown black 

 streaked with white. 



Range. — Island of Cuba (including Isle of Pines). (Monotypic.) 



KEY TC THE SUBSPECIES OF XtPHIDIOPICUS PERCUSSUS. 



a. Larger (male averaging: Wing 120.4, tail 87.9, culmen 25.7, tarsus 23.4; female, 

 wing 118.3, tail 91.4, culmen 21.8, tarsus 23); coloration darker, the under parts 

 more distinctly streaked, the streaks more blackish; red of foreneck more ex- 

 tended; aiiricular stripe darker gray and broader. (Cuba.) 



Xiphidiopicus percussus percussus (p. 183). 



aa. Smaller (male averaging: Wing 108.8, tail 78.3, culmen 25.3, tarsus 21.9; female, 



wing 107.6, tail 81.8, culmen 21.8, tarsus 20.6); coloration paler, the under parts 



less distinctly streaked, the streaks more grayish ; red of foreneck more restricted; 



auricular stripe narrower, more grayish. (Isle of Pines.) 



Xiphidiopicus percussus insulae-pinorum (p. 185). 



XIPHIDIOPICUS PERCUSSUS PERCUSSUS (Tenmiinck). 



CUBAN GREEN WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum (except anterior part of forehead) and hind- 

 neck bright poppy red, slightly darker on forehead and crown, where 

 more or less broken by exposure of the dusky basal portion of the 

 feathers, the forehead sometimes with a few small streaks or elongated 

 spots of white; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, ^ving- 

 coverts, and secondaries plain bright grayish yellowish green (nearly 

 oil green), lighter and more yellowish on rump, paler and grayer on 

 upper tail-coverts,'^ the secondaries rather broadly and regularly, but 



« The lower rump is sometimes more or less distinctly barred with dusky or blackish, 

 and the upper tail-coverts usually have alternate black and white shaft-streaks. 



