12. MELANERPES. jgc 



The young female resembles the adult of the same sex, but is 

 more of a sooty black above, with much less of the greeniilue 

 gloss possessed by the adult this being almost entirei; wanting o' 

 the top of the head and on the hind neek ; the white of the under 

 parts less pure, and with dusky striatious 



Bah. U.S.Colombia. 



i I ad si Sl"'°' ■\''^'PV^'^(l,K.Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k A '^1 t" Jet.ro 4ntioq«ia(r. K.Sohnon). .Sclater Coll. 



I^- 6 ad. sk. Santa Elena, Antioquia (T'. K. Salvin-Godman Coll 



tbalmon). 



I. ? ad. sk. Potreros Magdaleoa Valley, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. b. Colombia (C. W. Wyatt). 



5. Melanerpes xantholarynx. 



Melanerpes xantholarynx, Reichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 384, no 887 

 Ijl. dcxhu. fags. 4293-94, d" c? (1854); Grau/Ust PaT'Brt' 

 Mas. p. U6 (1868) ; id. Hand-LB. ii. p. 201, no. 8817 1870) 

 (1862)''"' ''^"*^'°l*^"ynx, 7W«//i. P*«-rf«, ii. p. 204, pi. c. fig. 6, r? 



Picus xantholarynx, Smidev. Comp. Av. Picin. p. 51 (1866). 



Adult mah. ¥rom the description and figure of this species given 

 by Keichenbach, it appears to differ from M. formicivorns (Swains ) 

 m having the face and side of the neek white, without any black 

 stripe running through and behind the eye; the chin and throat 

 goldeii-ochre, devoid of black, the malar region alone being of the 

 latter colour ; the yellow throat is separated from the white neek 

 and chest by a few stripe-like spots of black, there being also a few 

 similar spots on the side of the neck ; the irnderparts are striated 

 with black ; but there is not a trace of even a narrow black band 

 on the chest, tins being, like the rest of the underparts, white striped 

 with black Ihe measurements, according to Ileichenbach, are as 

 follows :-Length 9' 6'", culmen 11'", wing 5" 6"', tail 3" 5'" 

 tarsus 11'". ' 



Hah. Mexico? 



6, Melanerpes cruentatns. 



^Tlls'^f ''"''' ^^'°'''^l'^'=^''^^'' ^■''^'•- --^' ^"^^'- ^>«- Sijn. ii. p. .559, J 



^71782?"^'"''' ^^'oo'lp-^cker, vav. B, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 5C0, S 2 



he petit Pic noir. Buff. Hist. Xnf. Oig. vii. p. .54 (1 783) 

 Petit Pic noir de Cayenne, Danbent. PI. Enl no (ii)4 fat^ 9 

 Picus cruentatus, Bodd. Tail. PI. Enl. p. 43, 694 2 ('1783^' 

 licushnundmaceus y, r_^,«. %.f. Xat. i. p. 426, ^ (1788); Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. i. p. 221, cf ? (17U0). 



