168 ■ nciDJi;. 



Adult male. Above, including tail-coverts, and the wing-coverts 

 barred black and white, the back and scapulars washed with 

 yellowish : quills black, the basal portion of the primaries white, 

 and the apical margin also white ; the secondaries barred with 

 white upon both webs ; shafts black ; the central pair of tail- 

 feathers white, narrowlj' barred and tipped with black, the remain- 

 ing feathers black, the two outermost large ones on either side 

 barred with white on more or less of their apical half ; shafts black ; 

 nasal plumes reddish cream-colour ; base of the forehead, hinder 

 part of the crown, occiput, and nape crimson ; frontal band, lores, 

 and region above and below the anterior half of the eye creamy 

 white ; above the posterior half of the eye and running back- 

 wards a broad black stripe or spot ; posterior portion of the face 

 dull cream-colour ; the chin and throat drab, grading into ashy 

 brown on the sides of the neck, chest, and breast, and strongly 

 fulvescent below, the abdomen being crimson, and the thighs 

 barred with dusky black ; under tail-coverts fulvescent white barred 

 with black ; under wing-coverts white (slightly yellowish) with 

 varied black markings, the axillaries uniform dingy yellowish white. 

 Total length 11 inches, cuhneu 1-7, wing 0, tail 3-85, tarsus I'l ; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"85, outer posterior 0-87, inner 

 anterior U'6, inner posterior 0"45. 



• Adult female. Differs from tlie adult male in having the greater 

 part of the crown buffy white, with a smoky tinge posteriorly, the 

 hind part of the crown and the occiput black, striped with smoky 

 grey ; the nape (as in the male) crimson. Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 1"53, wing o-',], tail 8'9, tarsus 0-93. 



Young {(S'^). Resembles the adult male, but differs in having 

 scarcely a trace of red at the base of the forehead, the latter being 

 dull white with dusky spots ; the red on the crown and occiput 

 very much duller, and the black portion of the crown-feathers 

 showing through ; the upper parts with hardly any fulvescent tinge, 

 and the barring less black, and dusky on the rump ; underparts 

 only slightly fulvescent, and the red on the abdomen not so intense ; 

 the barring on the flanks, thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 dusky. 



Hah. Cuba. 



a. S ad. sk. Cuba. Zoological Society. 



b. 6 ad. sk. Cuba. Mrs. Bryant [P.]. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Cuba (C. Wrl(/ht). U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



d. (S ad. sk. Cuba. Sclater Coll. 

 e,f. (S ad.; (j,h. 5 Cuba. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



ad. ; i. Juv. sk. 



17. Melanerpes blakii. 



Centurus blakei *, R'ldym. Auk, iii. p. 337 (1886). 

 Melanerpes blakei, Ridgio. Ma7i. N. Amer. B. p. 292 (1887). 



* Certainly comes very close to M. nyeanus from Watlings Island, Bahamas, 

 judging from the description of that species given by Dr. Eidgway. 



