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Migrant from North America; apparently rare. 



K. H. Beck secured a female yellow-bellied woodpecker on Loma 

 Tina, Dominican Republic, January 3, 1917, that was molting into 

 breeding dress, and on February 10 of the same year shot another of 

 the same sex in full breeding plumage. On March 6, 1920 W. L. 

 Abbott collected a female near Anse a Galets or Gonave Island, 

 noting that it was extremely fat. Bond reports the species from 

 Trou Louis on Gonave Island, and from Tortue. Lonnberg writes 

 that the specimen he records as taken by Dr. E. L. Ekman was secured 

 on Tortue in March, 1928. 



The yellow-bellied woodpecker is a little smaller than the 

 Hispaniolan woodpecker, and is black above, mottled with white 

 on the wings and buffy white on the back, with a broad band of 

 white across the wing coverts. Below it is yellowish with sides 

 streaked with brown and a broad shield of black on the breast. The 

 throat is whitish in the female, and the crown either red or black. 

 Throat and crown are red in the male. 



Subfamily Picumninae 



NESOCTITES MICROMEGAS (Sundevall) 



HISPANIOLAN PICULET, ELATTTERO, CHARPENTIER-CAMEILE, 

 CHARPENTIER-BOIS 



Picumnus micromegas Sundevall, Consp. Av. Pic, 1866, p. 95 (" Brasilia "== 

 Hispaniola). 



Petit pic olive de Sainl-Domingue, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 7, 1780. 

 pp. 29-30 (description). 



TBucco cayennensis, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 234 (identity not 

 certain). 



Picus passerinus, Ritter, Naturli. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 155 

 (specimen). — Hartlaub, Jsis, 1S47, p. 610 (listed). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 96 (Dominican Republic). 



Chloronerpes passerinus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 234 

 (Higuey). 



Picumnus lavyrencU Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 129, pi. 1, 

 (Described as new; type from Jacmel, Haiti); pp. 153-154 (Jacmel, Petion- 

 ville). 



Picumnus lawrencci, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 

 109-110, col. pi. (Samana, Rivas, Petionville, Jacmel, specimens). — Tippen- 

 hauee, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 318, 322 (listed).— Verriix, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 360 (Sanchez, Sainam'i). 



Picumnus micromegas, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May. 

 1867, p. 96 (Dominican Republic, Haiti).— Tristram, Ibis, 1884, pp. 167-168 

 (Dominican Republic, specimen) ; Cat. Coll. Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 

 1889, p. 100 (Samana, specimen). 



Nesoctites micromegas, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 18, 1890, pp. 

 552-553, 3 figs, (description of new genus; specimens). — Cory, Cat. West 

 Indian Birds, 1892, p. 103 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Chebrie, Field 



