12. MELANERPES. 159 



8. Melanerpes portoricensis. 



Picus portoriceusis, Daud. Ann. Mus. d'Jfi.st. Nat ii. p. 285, pi. li. 



(1803); Sundev. Comj). Ac. Picin.^. 50(1866); Bryant, Proc. 



Bost. Soc. N. Hist. 1866, p. 256. 

 Picus riibidicollis, Vicill. Ois. Amir. Sept. ii. p. 6.3, pi. cxvii. (1807); 



Shaiv, Gen. Zoo/, ix. p. 156 (1815) ; Fieill. N. Diet, d" Hist. Nat. 



xxvi. p. 75 (1818) ; id. # Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1321 (1823) ; 



Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp, 62 (1827); JDrap, Diet. Class, xiii. 



p. 499 (1828). 

 Le Pic a ventre ensanglante, Temm. Cat. Syst. pp. 65, 210 (1807). 

 Melanerpes portoriceusis, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 172 (1826) ; 



Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 505 (1828) ; A. ^ E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, 



p. 377; Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1860, p. 377; Sel. Cat. Anwr. 



B. p. 341, no. 2037 (1862) ; Cav.-Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 170; Gray, 



List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 115 (1808j ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 201, 



no. 8819 (1870) ; 8cl. S^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 (1873) ; 



Gimdl. An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. vii. p. 227 (1878) ; Cory, List B. 



_ W. Ind. p. 20 (1885) ; id. Auk, 1886, p. 377. 

 Picus caroliniis {non Linn.), Less. Traite, i. p. 227 (1831). 

 Melanerpes riibidicollis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 444 (184()); Bp. Consp. 



Gen. Av. i. p. 115 (1850) ; id. Consp. Tolncr. Zyyod. p. 10, no. 208 



(1854) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 76 (1854): Reichenh. Scans. Picince, 



p. 383, no. 884, pi. dcxliii. figs. 4289-90(1854). 

 Melampicus portoricensis, Malh. Picidfe, ii. p. 205, pi. xcvii. fig. 5, 



d ad. (1862). 



Adult male. Frontal baud, nasal plumes, and orbital region white ; 

 the remainder of the head, neck, entire back and upper rump, wings, 

 and tail black, with a steel-green gloss ; shafts of (juills and of tail- 

 feathers black ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts white ; cheeks, 

 chin and throat, the middle of the chest and breast, also the entire 

 abdomen and vent, crimson ; sides of the body and under tail-coverts 

 pale umber-brown, slightl}- dusky on the sides of the breast and 

 thighs, the latter having a few red striations ; under wing-coveits 

 white; edge of wing black ; axillarics smoky white. Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 4-8, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-85 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-75, outer posterior 0-65, inner anterior 0'55, 

 inner posterior 0-4. 



Hah. Porto llico. 



a. Ad. sk. Porto Rico. Dr. II. Brvant [C.]. 



h. Imm. sk. Porto Rico (R. Strift). U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



('. Ad. sk. Porto Rico {Dr. H. Bryant). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d, e. Ad. et imm. Porto Rico [G. Latimer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. 



/. S ad. sk. Porto Rico (C P. Streator, Salvin-Godman C'oll. 



Cory Coll.). 



(/. Imm. sk. Porto Rico (R. Swift). Sclater Coll. 



*^. Ad. sk. Porto Rico (Z»/-.//.i?;-^«//Y). Sclater Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Bieque Island {Riise). Sclater Coll. 



