420 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The characters originally ascribed to this form by Mr. Miller {Auk, 

 XI, 1894, 164) seem to apply to these specimens, but I cannot regard 

 them as being of more than subspecific value. As has been pointed 

 out above, some individuals of S. h. bahamensis are fully as small, 

 with small bills likewise. The general colors of S. b. andria, however^ 

 are a shade darker, especially below, while the rufous chestnut of the 

 wings externally is more prominent. 



33. Coccyzus minor maynardi Ridgway. 



Twelve specimens: Great Inagua (Mathewtown) ; Watlings Island; 

 Abaco (Spencer's Point). 



" Iris dark hazel; rim of eyelids yellow; rest of bare skin lead-colored; 

 feet light gray." 



Some slight variation is exhibted in the depth of the bufTy of the 

 under parts, but the series as a whole shows a very constant difference 

 in this respect from a similar series from the Greater Antilles, which 

 Mr. Riley {Smithsonian Miscellaneous Colleciions, Quarterly Issue, 

 XLVII, 1904, 285) calls Coccyzus minor nesiotes (Cabanis and Heine), 

 To this statement there is one conspicuous exception; a female from 

 Abaco (No. 31 137), which is indistinguishable in size and coloration, 

 so far as I can see, from San Domingo examples, being fully as richly 

 colored beneath. In the large series of this species in the collection 

 of the Field Museum there are several specimens showing a similar 

 richness of color, notably two from Andros (Nos. 12377 and 12379), 

 while examples from the Caicos Islands are also rather deeply colored. 

 Whether such individuals actually represent true nesiotes, which is 

 said to straggle northward occasionally to Florida, or are merely 

 abnormally dark-colored examples of the resident Bahaman bird, is 

 an undecided question. 



34. Dryobates villosus maynardi Ridgway. 



Ten specimens: New Providence (Blue Hills); Andros (Staniard 

 Creek). 



This fine series exhibits the distinctive subspecific characters with 

 remarkable uniformity. All the specimens have a slight brownish 

 wash on the breast, approaching some of the Pacific Coast forms of 

 this species in this respect. The scarlet nuchal crescent of the male 

 is remarkable for its brilliancy and width, showing little tendency to 

 divide medially, as is so markedly the case in D. v. auduboni, the nearest 

 mainland form. In almost every specimen there are a few scattered 

 white feathers on the fore part of the crown. A female from New 



