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Save for the changes incident to wear and fading, this series is fairly 

 uniform. The greatest variation observable is that affecting the 

 barring on the outer rectrices, which is very conspicuous in some in- 

 dividuals, in others almost obsolete. The middle rectrices vary some- 

 what also, the outer webs sometimes having a stripe of white along the 

 shaft, and sometimes a row of spots. These variations occur in both 

 sexes. Four nestlings from Los Indios, taken May 8, are interesting 

 as showing that in juvenal dress the female has more or less red on the 

 crown, thus approximating the pattern of the adult male, as in other 

 species of this family. 



Compared with specimens of true superciliaris from Guantanamo, 

 Cuba, kindly loaned by Mr. Charles T. Ramsden, males from the 

 Isle of Pines are somewhat smaller, but are little different in color, 

 contrary to the claim of Mr. Bangs. The forehead, throat, and sides 

 of the head average more brownish, less whitish, however, and the 

 supraorbital black patch seems to average larger. Females of the 

 two forms are of the same size, and the colors about the same also; 

 in fact, the only distinguishing mark I can find is the much greater 

 width of the black band on the crown in the birds from the Isle of 

 Pines. 



This woodpecker is one of the most abundant and generally dis- 

 tributed birds on the island, in spite of the persecution to which it is 

 subjected by the inhabitants, because of the damage which it is 

 said to do to grape-fruit, oranges, and guavas. The injury in ques- 

 tion is done by puncturing the fruits to reach the soft, sweet pulp, 

 tor which the birds manifest a special fondness. As they are by no 

 means shy, it is a simple matter to kill them under such circumstances. 

 The nest is invariably built in a bottle-palm or royal palm, sometimes 

 as low as four feet from the ground. Two sets, of five and six eggs 

 respectively, were taken at Los Indios on May 3 and 5, while another 

 nest found May 8 contained young not quite ready to fly. 



92. Priotelus temnurus vescus Bangs & Zappey. Isle of Pines 

 Trogon. 



Trogon lemnunis (not of Temminck:) Poev, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 



(Nueva Gerona, fide Gundlach). 

 Priotelus temnurus Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 103 (I. of Pines, in geog. 



distr.). 

 Priotelus temnurus vescus Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 204 (Los 



Almacigos, Pueblo Nuevo, Pasadita, and Cayo Bonito, orig. descr. ; type now 



