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Subsp. y. Dendrocopus jardinii. 



Picus (Leuconotopicus) jardiuii, Malh. Bev. Znol. 1845, p. 374. 

 Picus jardinii, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. 3Ietz, 1848-49, p. 327 ; 



Grai/, Gen. B. iii. App. p. xxi (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. 



p. 137 (1850) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 308, 1857, p. 214, 1858, 



p. 359, 1859, pp. 367, 388 ; id. 4- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 136 ; Cav.- 



Tayl. op. cit. 1860, p. 119 ; 3Ialh. Picidce, i. p. 103, pi. xxv. tigs. 4(5 , 



5$ (1861) ; Sclat. Cat. Amei: B. p. 334, 110. 1990 (1862) ; Cass. 



Proc. Philad. Acad. 186-3, p. 200; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 177; 



Suiidev. Cotisp. Av. Picin. j). 17 (1866) ; Laicr. Ann. Lye. iS at. Hist. 



iV. York, 1868, p. 130 ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 50 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 186, no. 8614 (1870) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 212 ; 



id. Sf Sclat. 2somencl. Av. Neotr. p. 99 (1873) ; Zeled. Cat. Av. Costa 



Rica, p. 23 (1882). 

 Phrenopicus jardinii, Bp. Consp. Voliwr. Zygod. p. 8, no. 35 (1854). 

 Picus harrisii, Hoffm. J.f. O. 1862, p. 175 ; Sumich. Mem. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist. 1869, p. 562 ; Laivr. Ann, Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, 



1870, p. 130. 

 Dryobates jardinei, Cab. 4" Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 69 (1863). 

 Dryobates villosus harrisii (pt.), A. O. U. Cheek-list N. Amer. B. 



p. 211, no. 393 c (1886). 

 Dryobates villosus jardinii, Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 283 (1887). 



Adult male. Resembles the male of D. Jiarrisi, but is a much 

 smaller and darker bird, the under surface of the body becoming deep 

 brown in southern examples, this brown colour tinging the white on 

 the face and back ; the wing- coverts are generally without spots, and 

 the wings, when closed, only exhibit a few small white spots on the 

 primaries and the outer secondaries, but occasionally the secondaries 

 are devoid of any exposed spots when the wing is closed. In some 

 examples there is a profusion of large heart-shaped spots and stripes 

 of black on the sides of the chest, these being a continuation of the 

 stripe which borders the throat and fore neck. A specimen from 

 Jalapa measures as follows: — Total length 8 inches, culmen 1*15, 

 wing 4-65, tail 2*8, tarsus 0'8 ; toes (without claws) — outer ante- 

 rior 0'55, outer posterior 0'6, inner anterior 0-48, inner posterior 

 0"32, An example from Costa liica measures 7 inches, culmen 1*07, 

 •wing 3-95, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red 

 occipital band, the occiput being black, the white superciliary stripes 

 extending on to its sides, but not uniting. Measurements of a spe- 

 cimen from Jalapa : — Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-93, wing 4-45, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-8. A Guatemalan female measures 7 inches, 

 culmen 0*88, wing 4-3, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-7G. 



Young. Differ from the adult of both sexes in having most of the 

 feathers of the crown tipped with red, and at the base of the red 

 tips a small stripe-like spot of dingy white, the outer feathers being 

 tipped with dull buffy white ; the forehead very narrowly striped 

 with white ; the primaries having a V-shaped marking of white at 

 the tip ; the two large outer tail-feathers on either side unifonn 

 white. 



