166 piciD.i:. 



p. c? ad. sk. Tiirriallia, Costa Rica (i?..4;r^). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



q, r. S 2 aJ. sk. Panama [J. McLi'ctnnan). Salviu-Godruan Coll. 



s,t. c? $ ad. sk. Babalioyo, Ecuador (X. i'Vrtwr). Sclater Coll. 



w, f . c? 2 ad. sk. Sauta Rita, Ecuador. Snlvin-Godman Coll. 



15. Melanerpes radiolatus. 



Picas carolinus (pt.), Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 175 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. 



Nat. i. p. 431, sp. 10 (1788). 

 Carolina Woodpecker, var. A, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. p. 571 (1782). 

 L'iilpeiche ou Pic varie da la Jamaique, Jjiiff'. Hist. Nut. Ois. vii. 



p. 407, c? (1783). 

 Pic varie femelle de la Jamaique, Dauhent. PI. Enl. 597, S 'id. 

 Picus iamaiceusis, Brotvn, Nat. Hist. Jam. p. 474 (1789). 

 Pious carolinus, var. ^, Lath. hid. Orn. i. p. 231 (1790). 

 Picus radiolatus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 39, c? ad. (1827) ; id. 



Isis, 1829, p. 512; 'Sundev. Comp. Av. Picin. p. 52 (1861J). 

 Picus albifrous *, Swains. Phil. May. i. p. 439 (1827) ; Wayl. Isis, 



1829, p. 514. 

 Picus larvatus, Temm. PL Col. liv. 73, art. on P. superciliaris (1827). 

 Centurus radiolatus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 442 (1846) ; Gosse, B. Jam. 



p. 271 (1847); Bp. Consp. Gen. Ac. i. p. 118 (1850); id. Consp. 



Valuer. Zyqnd. p. 11, no. 215 (1854); Heichenb. Scans. Pieina, 



p. 409. no! 961, pi. dclxiii. fig. 4406 ( c? ad. incorrect) (1854); 



Sclat. P.Z.S. 18(il, p. 79; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 343, no. 2046 



(1862); Marsh, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 284; Sclat. 8,- Sah. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 (1873) ; Pidyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1881, p. Ill; A. ii- E. Newton, Handh. Jam. p. 109 (1881); 



Salv. Cat. StricU. Coll. p. .399, no. 1951 (1882); Cory, List B. W. 



Ind. p. 20 (1885); id. Auh, iii. p. 378 (1886). 

 Zebrapicus radiolatus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 237, pi. civ. figs. 5, 6, (5 J 



ad. (1862). 



Adult male. Above, including the wings and tail and their coverts 

 black, the back and scapulars very narrowly barred with greyish 

 white, the rump and upper tail-coverts more broadly barred with 

 the same ; tlie wing-coverts and innermost secondaries very narrowly 

 barred with white, the remaining secondaries transverselj- spotted 

 with white on both webs, the inner webs of the primaries spotted 

 on the basal half, or less, some of the outer webs having one or two 

 small spots of white ; shafts black ; the central pair of tail-feathers 

 very narrowly barred with white, the outer large feather externally 

 spotted ; shafts black ; nasal plumes, frontal band, almost the entire 

 face, also the chin and tlrroat, creamy white ; crown, occiput, and 

 nape crimson ; hind neck like the back ; hinder part of the face 

 smoky brown, the side of the neck and fore neck dusky olive, grading 

 into theAvhite throat ; the underparts deep golden olive, the abdomen 

 tinged with crimson ; the vent, thighs, and under tail-coverts black 

 narrowly barred with white, the feathers margined at the tip with 

 olive-yellow or dull orange ; under wing-coverts black barred with 



* I entirely agree with Dr. Eidgway (P. U. S. N. M. 1881, p. Ill, note) in 

 thinking that P. alhifrons of Swainson was founded on the Jamaican species 

 M. radiolatus. 



