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under tail-coverts are striped, the thighs alone having dusky bars ; 

 the chest is less yellow than in the adult ; the white on the face 

 and neck not so pure, and the auricular stripe of a paler dusky 

 brown ; the upper part of the forehead and the crown are blackish 

 brown, the former having a few stripe-like spots of white, the coronal 

 feathers tipped with crimson, the occiput and nape entirely crimson ; 

 the back and the wing-coverts are less green than in the adult. 

 Hah. Cuba, 



Verde, Cuba (C. 

 Wright) [Sm. no. 17746]. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



2(i. SAPHEOPIPO. 



Type ;S'. nor/uchii. 



Wing of Sapheopipo noguchii (reduced). 

 Ranrje. Loo Choo Islands. 



1. Sapheopipo noguchii. 



Picus noguchii, Seeb. Ibis, 1S87, p. 178, pi. vii. 



Blythipicus noguchii, Stejn. Zeitsch. yesamm. Orn. 1887, p. 172, 



Young, sc.r? Back, scapulars, rump, and iipper tail-coverts sooty 

 brown, the feathers tipped with dull brick-red, the underparts from 

 the chest to the vent (both inclusive) as well as the under tail-coverts 

 rather browner than the back, especially on the chest ; the breast, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts tipped with brighter brick-red; 

 ■wings and their coverts brownish black, the outer primary long, 

 measuring 1-95 inch ; some of the primaries having one exposed 

 and one concealed white spot on the outer webs, the inner webs 

 having two or three spots of white, most of the secondaries having 

 a concealed white spot at the extreme base of each web, shafts 

 black ; tail and the shafts black ; nasal plumes buffy brown tipped 



