84 piciD^. 



14. Chloronerpes yucatanensis. 



Picus yucatensis, Cabot, Bost. Jouni. Nat. Hist. 1845, p. 92. 

 Picus yucatacensis, Grai/, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849). 

 Chrysoptilus canipileus {non B'Orh.), Sclat. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 161. 

 Chlorouerpes yucatanensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 60 ; Sclat. §• 



<S'fl/". Ibis, 1859, p. 136 ; iia. op. cit. 1860, p. 44 ; Sclat. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 339, no. 2025 (1862) ; Cab. J. f. O. 1862, p. 321 ; Cab. ^ 



Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 161 (1863), pt. ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. 



Mus. p. 104 (1868), pt. ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 198, no. 8777 (1870) ; 



Sclat. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 (1873); Salv. Cat. 



Strickl. Coll. p. 390, no. 193G (1882) ; Zeled. Cat. Av. Costa Rica, 



1882, p. 23, no. 488 ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 452 ; Zeled. Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mw. 1885, p. 111. 

 Chloronerpes uropygialis, Cab. J.f. O. 1862, pp. 321, 322. 

 Chloronerpes canipileus {non D'Orb.), Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 339, 



no. 2027 (1862) ; Grai/, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 104 (1868), pt. ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 198, no. 8776 (1870), pt. ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 212; id. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. j^. 100 (1873), p". 

 Chrysopicus rubiginosus (pt.), Malh, Picidce, ii. p. 174, text only 



(1862). 

 Picus yucatanensis, Sundev. Consp, Av. Picin. p. 70 (1866) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 186 (1876). 

 Chloronerpes yucatensis, Laior. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, 



1868, p. 131. 

 Chloronerpes ruhiginosus {non Swains.), Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 380. 



Adult male. Back and scapulars olive, slightly rusty ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts dusky olive narrowly barred with yellow ; 

 wing-coverts rusty olive ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky, 

 externally olive ; outer webs of quills brownish or rusty olive, the 

 inner webs blackish brown, the basal margin of these being yellowish 

 white ; shafts brownish yellow ; tail brownish black, shading into 

 umber-brown on the lateral feathers, the central feathers more or 

 less olive-brown at the base, dwarf feather olive ; shafts of central 

 feathers blackish brown, yellow at the base, those of the outer 

 feathers more or less yellow ; nasal plumes black ; forehead, crown, 

 and occiput dusky leaden grey, the outer edge of these, as well as 

 the nape, being crimson ; lores and face dingy buff, the posterior 

 portion of the face (not including the ear-coverts) barred with 

 blackish ; malar stripe crimson ; chin and throat white, the upper 

 half striped, the lower half barred with black ; fore neck, sides of 

 the neck, and the chest blackish olive, the feathers having yellowish 

 tips and being crossed by narrow white bars ; the remainder of the 

 under surface of the body and the under tail-coverts barred dusky 

 olive and pale yellow ; under wing-coverts golden buff with faint 

 dusky bars ; axillaries yellow barred with dusky olive ; underside 

 of quills and of lateral tail-feathers glossed with golden ; the under- 

 side of the shafts golden yellow. Total length 8-3 inches, culmen 

 1-05, wing 4-65, tail 2-8, tarsus 0"8; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0'72, outer posterior 0-73, inner anterior 0-55, inner pos- 

 terior 0"36. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the crimson 

 on the malar region, this being white striped with black ; also in not 



