516 PICIDiE. 



t. c. p. 128 ; JDress. op. cit. 1865, p. 469 ; Brown, op. cit. 1868, p. 419 ; 



Merriam, Bull. Nuft. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 6 ; Mai/n. Bds. E. N. 



Amor. p. 234, pi. xlx. (1879). 

 Piiteotomus pileatus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 102 (1863). 

 Ilylotomiis pileatus, Blakist. Ibis, 1863, p. 52 ; Mclltvr. Proc. Essex 



List. 1866, p. 83 ; Coues, op. cit. 1867, p. 262 ; Coop. B. Calif, ed. 



Baird, p. 396 (1870) ; Allen, Am. Nat. 1870, p. 572 ; Coues, B. 



N.-West, p. 278 (1874) ; B., B., S,- R. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 550, 



pi. Ivi. %3. 4 2,5 c? (1874); Brewsf. Ami. Lye. N. York, xi. 



p. 144 (1875) ; Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, p. 151 ; Beld. 



i.e. IX 429; Ridgw. op. cit. 1879, p. 189; Merriam, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, 1882, p. 236 ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



1882, p. 76; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 425; Cooke ^ Widm. Ridyio. 



Orn. Club Bull. i. 1883, p. 37 ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2Dd ed. 



1884, p. 480; Ayersb. Auk, 1885, p. 283. 

 CeophlcEus pileatus, A. O. U. CJieck-list N. Amer. B. 1886, p. 215 ; 

 • Brewst. Auk, 1886, p. 104 ; Warreii, B. Pe?m. p. 132 (1888). 



Adult male. Entire plumage sooty black, with the following ex- 

 ceptions : — the forehead, crown, elongated occipital and nuchal 

 feathers, and the malar stripe crimson ; a narrow white super- 

 ciliary stripe running backwards to the occiput ; the lower nasal 

 plumes and a broad stripe from the nostril crossing the face, and 

 extending down the side of the neck on to the side of the chest, 

 white ; chin and throat white ; the edge of the wing white, trans- 

 versely spotted with black ; the bases of both webs of the quills 

 white, this being concealed by the greater wing-coverts, and only 

 showing on the outer primaries a little way below the primar}'- 

 coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; the outer Avebs 

 of the outer primaries have an apical spot of dirty white ; the 

 sides of the body and the flanks are faintly and narrowly barred 

 with greyish white : shafts of quills and of tail-feathers black : 

 " bill blackish, grey above, pale horn-colour beneath ; irides golden 

 yellow ; legs bluish black " (Bichardson). Total length 16-5 inches, 

 culmen 2-2, wing 9"15, tail 6-3, tarsus 1'35 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0-98, outer posterior 0"8, inner anterior O'T, inner 

 posterior 0-48. 



Young male. Has the red on the forehead, crown, and crest of a 

 brick colour, and there is only a slight trace of a white stripe behind 

 the eye ; the chin and throat are faintly striped with sooty black, 

 and the breast and abdomen are more sooty black than in the adult ; 

 the malar stripe is dusky black, one or two of the feathers having 

 red tips. Older, but still immature, males have the malar stripe 

 entirely red, while still retaining the striated throat. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the malar 

 region entirely black ; the margins of the feathers of the forehead 

 and of the greater part of the crown dark brown, the remaining por- 

 tion of the feathers being black, and giving a mottled appearance to 

 the top of the head, the hind part of crown and occipital crest alone 

 being crimson. Total length 16 inches, cnlmcn 1"9, wing 8'8o, 

 tail G'05, tarstis 1-28. 



Examples of this species from Florida have the white at the base 



