552 



4-5 inches, ciilmen 0-5, M-ing- 2-3, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-5; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-4, outer posterior 0-4, inner anterior 0-27, 

 inner posterior 0-17. 



Adult female. Eesemhles the adult male, but wants the orange- 

 red tipped feathers on the forehead, the latter heing unicolorous 

 with the crown. Total length 4-07 inches, culmen 0-4C), wing 2-17, 

 tail ] -22, tarsus 0-47. 



Ifab. China (prohabl_v throughout the whole country, having been 

 recorded from Folucn, Sechuan, and Kansu) and ranging to Ko-ko- 

 nor in Eastern Thibet. The typo is from May-chee. 



a. c? ad. sk. May-chee, China. 



h. (S <id. sk. Kansu, jS.W. China, Fuh. 



Slianghai Museum. 



{Type of species.) 

 M. Eerezowsky [C.]. 



47. NESOCTITES. 



Nesoctites 



Range. Confined to Haiti and San Domingo. 



. Typp. 

 N. microuiegas. 



Bill, tail, and part of wing oi Nesoctites micromrgas. 



1. Nesoctites micromegas. 



Chloronerpes passerinus, Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 2M ; Bryant, Proc. 



Bast. Sec. Nat. Hist. 18G6, p. 96. 

 Picumnus micromegas, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 95 (1866) ; 



Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1866, p. 96 ; Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. .Mtis. p. 28 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 180, no. 8530 (1870) ; 



Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 442 (1870) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1884, p. 167 : Cory, 



Auk, 1886, p. 372: ; ; 1' > y. 



Picumnus lawreucii, Coi-if, Bull. Nutt. Orti. Club, 1881, pp. 129, 153, 



pi. i., d ? ; id- B. Hayti ^- San Dom. p. 109, c? & $ figd. (1884) ; 



id. List B. W. Ind. p. 19 (1885). 



