iSS6.] Cory on the Birch of the Wist India.. 3^!^ 



Genus Dryobates Boie. 



Dryobatcs^OlK^ Isis, 1S26, p. 977, 



Dryobates villosus insularis, 



Picus villosim Bryant. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 106 (1859). — 



Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 120 (iSSo). 

 Piciis insularis M.\YX. The Nat. in Florida. I, No. 4 (18S5). 

 Picus villosus insularis CoRY. List Bds. W. I. p. 19 (18S5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above black, with a white band down the middle of 

 the back, finely lined with black; all the quills, middle and larger 

 wing-coverts with numerous spots of white; crown black; a patch 

 over the eye, and a stripe from the mandible to the nape white; a 

 black stripe from the eye, passing through the cheeks, over the 

 nape, and joining the black of the back ; a scarlet crescent around the 

 base of the skull, joining the white superciliary stripe; underparts 

 ashy, with the sides mottled and striped w'ith black : two outer tail- 

 feathers white, edged and tipped with pale brown: third black, with 

 a patch of pale brown upon the outer web. the others black. 



Female; — The scarlet crescent wanting, replaced by white. 



Length, 7.25; wing, 4.20; tail. 3: tarsus, .70; bill. i. 

 Habitat. Northern Bahama Islantls. 



This form differs from P. villosus in the greater extent of 

 white in front of the eye, the bhtck streaks on the sides of the 

 breast, and black sliaft-lines on the white feathers of tlie back. 



Genus Sphyrapicus Baird. 

 Spkyrapicus Baird, Bds. N. A. p. loi (1S5S). 



'Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). 



Picus varius Li's^. Syst. Nat. I. p. 176 (1766). — D^Orb. in La Sagra's 

 Hist. Nat. Cuba. Ois. p. 141 (1S40). — Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 270 

 (1847). — Cab. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 102 (Cuba). — Newton, Ibis. 1859. 

 p. 30S (St. Croix). — Bryant. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 106 

 (1859) (Bahamas) ; ib. Brewer, p. 396 (i860) (Cuba). — Albrecht, 

 J. f. O. 1S62. p. 202 (Jamaica). — March. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1S63. p. 284 (Jamaica). 



Sphyrapicus varius Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba. I. p. 294 (1866) ; 

 /i^. J. f. O. 1S74, p. 150 (Cuba). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 121 

 (1880). — A. & E. New^ton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (1S81). — Cory. 

 List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (1885). 



Picus {Spkyropicus) varius Bryant. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI. p. 65 

 (1S67) (Bahamas). 



