12. MELANERPES. 167 



white, the axillaries olivaceous grey. Total length 10 inches, cul- 

 men 1-62, wing 5-3, tail 3 3, tarsus 0-95 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0-8, outer posterior 0-83, inner anterior 0-65, inner 

 posterior O-i. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the crown 

 smoky grey, with a few transverse markings of black, the occiput 

 and nape (only) red. Total length lO'o inches, culraen 1-4, wing 

 5-1, tail 3-3, tarsus 096. 



Young male. Differs from the adult male in having the crown 

 dusky, but with some of the feathers tipped with crimson ; the 

 underparts less bright golden olive, and varied with transverse 

 dusky spots or faint bars ; the thighs and under tail-coverts dusky 

 black barred with dull white, not tinged with yellow. 



JJab. Confined to the island of Jamaica. 



a, b. (S ad. st. Jamaica. Purchased. 



c. 5 ud. sk. Jamaica. Philip Gosse, Esq. 



[_CJ. 



d. (S ad. sk. Jamaica. Tweeddale Coll. 

 «>/• c? ? ad. sk. Jamaica. Sclater Coil. 

 g,h. S $ ad.sk. Moneague, Jamaica, Feb. (Dr. Mrs. Bryant [P.]. 



Bryant). 

 i,k,l. (S ad. et Moneague, Feb., Aug. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



imm. sk. 

 m. 5 ad. sk. Near Spanish Town, Jamaica Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(W. JF. Marsh), 

 n. Sternum. Purchased. 



16. Melanerpes superciliaris. 



Picus superciliaris, Temm. PI. Col. iv. pi. 4.33, S ad. (1827) ; Less. 



Man. d'Orn. p. 112 (1828) ; Drajy. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 505 (1828) ; 

 Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 515 ; Less. Traite, i. p. 227, c? (1831) ; Thienem. 



J.f. O. 1857, p. 153; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 55 (1866). 

 Colaptes superciliaris, Vi(/. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 445 (1828); Wuf/ner, 



Arch, fur Nature/. 1841, p. 100 ; Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Phys. 



Cuba,'Av. p. Ill, pi. xxiii., var. alb. (1838); D'Orb. # Sayra, 



Hist. Phi/s. Cuba, Orn. p. 146 (1839); Lembeye, Av s Cuba, 



p. 131 (1S.:0). 

 Picus striatus {non Gm.), Less. Traite, i. p. 227, $ (1831). 

 Picus subocularis. Less. Deser, d'Ois. Itec. Decouv. 1847, p. 205, 



no. 33, S ■ 

 Colaptes superciliosus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 446 (1846). 

 Zebrapicus superciliaris, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Mete, 



1848-49, p. 361 ; id. Picidcs, ii. p. 223, pi. cii. iigs. 1, d (ad. ?), 2 



2 ad., 3 5 ad. alb. (1802). 

 Centurus superciliaris, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 118, no. 1 (1850) ; 



id. Consp. Volucr. Zyyod. p. 11, no. 214 (1854) ; Eeichenb. Scans. 



PicincB, p. 408, no. 958, pi. dclxii. figs. 4400 cJ ad., 4401 $ alb. 



(1854); Gundl. J.f. 0. 1856, p. 103; Breioer, Proc. Post. Soc. 



Nat. Hist. vii. p. 307 (1860) ; Sclaf. Cat. Amer. B. p. 342, 



no. 2042 (1862); Gundl. Bepert. 1866, p. 294; Sclat. Sf Salv. 



Nomencl Av. Neotr. p. 101 (1873) ; Ridyiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1881, p. 115; Cory, List B. W. Led. p. 20 (1885) ; id. Auk, iii. 



p. 379 (1886). 

 Melanerpes superciliaris, Eidyiv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 292 (18S7). 



