BIRDS OF CUBA 9^ 



i6o. Todus multicolor exilis Barbour and Brooks. 



The Todies of eastern Cuba differ In color from those of the west 

 and of the Isle of Pines, by having lighter blue on the sides of the neck 

 and a considerably more restricted and duller yellow patch at the base of 

 the forehead. 



They occur in the same variety of situations in lowlands and on lime- 

 stone hillsides that shelter the western race. 



i6i. Megaceryle alcyon alcyon (Linne). 

 Belted Kingfisher; Martin Pescador. 



A regular bird of passage, appearing in Cuba in varying numbers 

 each spring and autumn. 



162. Campephilus bairdii Cassin. 

 Cuban Ivory-bill; Carpintero Real. 



The Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker is virtually extinct. There may 

 possibly be a few pairs still living in the pine-clad highlands of Mayari, 

 where Doctor Ramsden killed his fine pair some fifteen or twenty years 

 ago. He generously gave me the excellent male (M. C. Z., no. 67,779) 

 from San Luis de la Cabezada, which Senor Luis Simon killed in 1907. 

 I never have seen a single individual nor any recent workings. It is 

 improbable that any more specimens ever will be secured. 



In Gundlach's time Ivory-bills were to be found in the Organ 

 Mountains north of San Diego de los Banos, in the high woods aboutthe 

 Ensenada de Cochinos, where the memory of the Carpintero Real persists, 

 as well as nearGuantanamo. He collected traditions of still earlier occurrence 

 in Banaguises, Calimete and along the Hanabana. He reniarks that its 

 voice was like a boy's tin trumpet, that it usually flew in families, and that 

 its eggs had never been found. 



