184 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



rather indistinctly, barred with blackish; tail slate-gray, rather 

 broadly but indistinctly barred with darker, the shafts of rectrices 

 black; primaries dull black or slate-black, broadly barred or spotted 

 with light yellowish olive-green, these markings paler and more gray- 

 ish on distal quills; nasal tufts and anterior portion of forehead, 

 broad superciliary stripe, loral, suborbital and malar regions, sides 

 of chin and throat, and sides of neck white (tinged with greenish yel- 

 low in fresh plumage), the first two sometimes tinged with pale brown- 

 ish, sometimes with bristly tips or terminal margins blackish ; auricu- 

 lar region grayish dusky, with narrow shaft-streaks of white, this 

 dusky grayish auricular stripe, continued, more narrowly, down side 

 of neck; median portion of chin and most of throat black; extreme 

 lower throat, foreneck, and upper chest bright poppy red, this forming 

 a somewhat triangular patch, widened and convex posteriorly; rest of 

 under parts citron or sulphur yellow, deepening into canary yellow 

 on abdomen, the lower chest and breast streaked with grayish dusky 

 or blackish, the sides more broadly streaked and barred, the flanks 

 still more broadly barred with the same; under .tail-coverts marked 

 with broad V-shaped bars of blackish; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 white or very pale yellow, more or less heavily barred or spotted with 

 blackish; inner webs of remiges dusky, broadly barred with yellowish 

 white, except on distal portion of outer primaries (extensively) and 

 terminal portion of secondaries; under surface of tail pale yellowish 

 gray, more or less distinctly barred with blackish ; bill, blackish, the 

 mandible more grayish (bluish gray in life), at least basally; feet 

 grayish (yellowish gray or olive-greenish in life?); length (skins), 

 215-240 (231); wing, 113-130.5 (120.4); tail, 82-90.5 (87.9); culmen 

 24-28 (25.7); tarsus, 22-25.5 (23.4); outer anterior toe, 18-21.5 

 (19.3).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but forehead and crown 

 black, sharply streaked with white; length (skins), 205-224 (219); 

 wing, 110-125.5 (118.3); tail, 85-97.5 (91.4); culmen, 20-23 (21.8); 

 tarsus, 22-24 (23); outer anterior toe, 17-20 (18.2). « 



Island of Cuba (Guamd; El Guamd; Monte Verde; Guantanamo; 

 Baracoa; Holquin; Camaguey; near Cardenas; near Trinidad; 

 Figuabas). 



Picus percussus Temminck, PI. Col., 66e livr., (vol. iv), June, 1826, pis. 390, 424, 

 and text (Cuba; coll. Leyden Mus.). — Vigors, Zool. Joiurn., iii, 1827, 

 444.— D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Fis., etc., Cuba, Aves, 1839, 109, 

 French ed., 143. — Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 39. — Lembeye, 

 Aves de la Isla de Cuba, Suppl., 1850, 131. — Thienemann, Journ. fiir Om., 

 1857, 153.— SuNDEVALL, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 48. 



D[endrobates] percussus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 437. 



Chloropicus percussus Malherbe, M6m. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 352. 



a Ten specimens. 



