32. NKSOCELETJS. 4jg 



the chin and throat darker and almost without .spot : the chest 

 darker and rather more olive. 

 ]Iab. Pahiwau. 



«, b S2 -id. ; c. Puerto Piincesa, Palawan, Tweeddale Coll 



6 mmi sk. Nov. 1877 (A. Ercrett). (Types of the species ) 



d. <S ad. sk. Puerto Pnncesa, Palawan. E. Lemprieil Esq 



[C.]. 



'32. NESOCELEUS 



Nesoceleus, Scl. et Salv. NomencL At. Neotr Ann ^^'^' 



P- 155(1873) ■[,}]■_ N. fernandina^. 



Ramje. Confined to the island of Cuba. 



1. Nesoceleus fernandinaB. 



Colaptes fernandime, Viy. Zool. Journ. iii. p 445 (1828) ; liammi de 

 la Sagra HiM lis. ^-c. Cuba, ii. p. 112, pi. xxiv. (1838) ; d'Orb. in 

 Sagras Hist Aat. Cuba, p. 148, pi. xxiv. (1839j ; Wa,pi. Arch, 

 fur Aafurg. 1841, p. 100 ; Denm/, F. Z. S. 1847, p. 39: Bp. Comp. 

 Gen. Av. i. p. 114 (1850j ; Lembeye, Av. Isl. Cuba, p. 131 (1850) • 

 bp. Comp Volucr.Zygod. p. 11, no. 234 (1854) ; Licld. NomencL 

 Av. p / 1 (1854) ; Cab. J. f. O. 185G, p. 104 ; Brewer, Proc. Bost 

 Soc. A at. Hist. 1860, p. 307; Gray, List I'ieid. Brit. Mus p 102 

 (186b) ; id.Hand-l. B. ii. p. 202, no. 8833 (1870) ; Gimdl. J. f~0. 

 18/4, p. lo5. •' 



Picus fernandinae, Wagl. Ms, 1829, p. 517. 



Geopicos fernandina;, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz 1^48-49 

 p. 359. ' ' 



Colaptes feruandiffi, Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 415, no. 975 nl dclxvii 

 fig-. 4427, 2 (1854). ^ ' '^ •tt^-^^u- 



Geopicus fernandinffi, Malh.Picidce., ii. p. 273, pi. cxiii. figs. 4, 5, rf ? 



Picus fernandi, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 78 (1866). 



Nesoceleus fernandinaj, Scl. Sj- Sa/c. Nonmicl. Av. Neotr p 101 

 (1873); Cory, List B. W. Lid. p. 20 (1885); id. Auk, 188Q, 

 p. 380. ' 



Adiilt male. Entire Lack, rump, upjier tail-eovcrts, tail, scapulars, 

 and wing-coverts olive-black, narrowly barred with pale yellow ;' 

 bastard-wing and prin:ar3'-covcrts brownish black, spotted with 

 yellowish ; quills brownish black, with yellow or whitish transverse 

 spots on the outer webs and pure white spots on the inner webs 

 the innermost feathers barred with whitish right across both webs •' 

 shafts yellowish brown, darker at the base ; shafts of the tail- 

 feathers clear brown ; top of the head, occiput, and nape rufous, 

 narrowly striped with black ; lores, face, and upper half of the side 

 of the neck uniform rufous ; hind neck and lower side of the neck 

 like the back ; malar strijie black; feathers of the chin, throat, and 

 side of the neck immediately behind the malar region with a black 

 central strijie and white margin ; entiie under surface of the body 

 and under tail-coverts yellow, narrowly barred with black ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries clear golden buflF, with a few dusky 



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