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times obsoletely) barred with dusky grayish, the throat sparsely 

 streaked or flecked with dusky grayish (sometimes nearly immacu- 

 late), the feathers grayish basally; rest of under parts pale sulphur or 

 primrose yellow, broken by numerous, mostly guttate, streaks of 

 dusky, these broadest (more spot-hke) on flanks and under tail- 

 coverts; under wing-coverts and broad edging to inner webs of remiges 

 pale cimiamon-bufl^; bill horn color, darker on culmen (especially 

 toward tip), the mandible paler and more grayish, at least on basal 

 half; feet dark grayish (in dried skins); length (skins), 122-137 

 (129); wing, 68-74 (70.2); tail, 37-43 (39); cuhnen, 15-17 (15.7); 

 tarsus, 17-18 (17.3); outer anterior toe, 13-14 (13.4).*^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without the red spot 

 on crown; length (skins), 126-143 (134); wing, 70.5-75 (73.2); tail, 

 39-43.5 (41.5); culmen, 17-18 (17.2); tarsus, 17-18.5 (17.8); outer 

 anterior toe, 14-15.5 (14.7).^^ 



Young (both sexes) . — Similar to the adult female. 



Island of Haiti (Jacmel and Petionville, Haiti; Samana, La 

 Canita, Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata, Catare, and Aguacate, Santo 

 Domingo) . 



Bucco cayanensis (not of Gmelin, 1788) Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 234. 

 Chloronerpes passerinus (not of Bonaparte, ex Picas passerinus Linnaeus) Salle, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 234 (Santo Domingo). 

 Clampias] passerinus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft. 2, 1863, 147 



(Haiti). 

 Picus passerinus (not of Linngeus) Drapiez, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828, 



504 (Santo Domingo).— Bryant, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 96 (Santo 



Domingo). 

 Picumnus micromegas Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 95 (Rio Janeiro, 



Brazil, error; coll. Stockholm Mus.; see Tristram, Ibis, 1884, 167, 168). — 



Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 96 (Santo Domingo). — Gray, List 



Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 28.— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 442.— Cory, 



Auk, iii, 1886, 373; Birds West Ind., 1889, 167.— Maynard, Cat. Birds West 



Ind., 1903, 12. 

 P[icumnus] micromegas Tristram, Ibis, 1884, 167 (Santo Domingo; crit.). 

 [Picumnusl micromegas Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 180, no. 8530. 

 Nesoctites micromegas Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 552 (Samand, 



Santo Domingo).— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 103, 131.— Cherrie, 



Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 20 (Santo Domingo City, Catare, and Aguacate, 



Santo Domingo; habits). 

 [Nesoctites] micromegas Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 235. 

 Picumnus lawrencii Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, July, 1881, 129, pi. 1 (Haiti; 



coll, C. B. Cory), 153 (Jacm61 and Peti6nville, Haiti); Birds Haiti and San 



Dom., 1884, pi. [14]. — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fur Orn., 1882, 214 



(reprint of orig. descr.). 

 Picumnus lawrencei Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1884, 109. — Verrill (A. E. 



and A. H.), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1909, 360 (Sanchez and Samand, 



Santo Domingo). 

 [Picumnus] lawrencei Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19; revised ed., 1886, 19. 



a Ten specimens. 



