244 piciD^. 



Picua cancellalus (non Wagl), Sclat. P. Z. S. 185G, p. 308. 

 Threnopipo stricklandi, Cab. ^ Heine, Mvs. Hein. iv. p. 71 (1863). 

 Dryobates stricklandi, Ridgw. 3Ian. N. Amer. B. p. 28G (1887). 



Adult male. Back and rump barred blackish browu and ■white ; 

 scapulars, wing coverts, and (juills blackish brown, the primaries 

 and outer secondaries spotted with white upon both webs, the inner 

 webs only of the inner secondaries being spotted ; shafts reddish 

 brown ; upper tail-coverts and the four central tail-feathers uniform 

 brownish black, the next feather black, with an apical bar and spots 

 of bufpy white, the two outer large feathers on either side buffy 

 white, narrowly barred with black ; shafts corresponding in colour 

 with the surrounding web ; nasal plumes rusty brownish white ; 

 forehead and crown brownish black, the occijiut scarlet ; sides of 

 the face and neck brownish black, with a short white stripe from 

 above the eye running backwards, and another white stripe from the 

 loral region running under the ear-coverts and then crossing the 

 neck to the nape, but not uniting on the latter region with the cor- 

 responding stripe ; from the chin to the under tail-coverts, both in- 

 clusive, white ; the chin and throat, chest, breast, and sides of the 

 body striped or longitudinally spotted with black, the flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts having the markings more barred, the ab- 

 domen and vent spotted ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 with dusky varied markings and spots. Total length 7"5 inches, 

 culmen 0-92, wing 4-6, tail 2-(i, tarsus 0-82 ; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior Uo, outer posterior 0-55, inner anterior 0'4, inner 

 posterior 0'28. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of the red 

 occipital band. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-77, wing 4-4, 

 tail 2-45, tarsus 0-8. 



Young male. Differs from the adult of both sexes in having the 

 crown red, the black striations on the underpnrts broader, and the 

 flanks and thighs distinctly barred with dusky black ; the primaries 

 narrowly margined with greyish at the tip. 



Hah. South-eastern Mexico (Jalapa &c.). 



a. $ ad.sk. X.ichimilco, Tetelco, Jan. Salvin-Godniau Coll. 



b. d" ad. sk. Jalapa (de Oca). Sclater Coll. 



c. c? ad. sk. Las Vigas, Jalapa, Aug. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



17. Dendrocopus nuttalli. 



Picas nuttalli, Gamb. Proc. Phikid. Acad. 1843, p. 259; Sclat. P. Z. S. 

 1857, p. 127 ; id. op. cit. 1858, p. 3 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 93, 

 pi. xli. fig. 2 (1858) ; Malh. Picidce, i. p. 100, pi. xxiv. tigs. 8, 9, 

 sk (1861); Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 195; Sunder. 

 Consp. Ar. Picin. p. 19 (1866); Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 270; Gray, 

 List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 185, no. 

 8607 (1870) ; Coop. B. Calif, ed. Baird, p. 378, head of S figd. 

 (1870) ; B., B., i^ R. Hist. N. Amer. B. h. p. 521, pi. 1. figs. 3cJad., 

 6 2 ad. (1874) ; Ridijjv. Orn. 40th Par. p. 547 (1877) ; Beld. Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mas. 1878, p. 428 ; Ciop. op. cit. 1879, p. 250 ; Ridgw. 

 op. cit. 1880, p. 189, no. 364. 



