380 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [July 



succeeded by a band ot" dull black, which is in turn replaced by red 

 on the base of the skull, extending to the nape. 



Length, 11.50; wing, 5. So: tail, 4; tarsus, i; bill, 1.50. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Colaptes Swains. 

 Cohipfes Sw.\iN'SON, Zool. Join-ii. Ill, p. 353, Dec. 1S27. 



Colaptes chrysocaulosus Gundt. 



Colaptes chrysocaxlosHS Gundl. Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 273 

 (185S).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860).— 

 Albrecht, J. f. O. 1861, p. 210. — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. 

 Cuba, I, p. 294 (1866) ; ib. J. f. O. 1874, p. 153. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. 

 Avium Neotr. p. loi (1873). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (18S5). 



Colaptes aitratus Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 103. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860). 



Colaptes auratus var. chrysocaulosus Bd. Bwr. ^: Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 

 Bds. II, p. 575 (1874). 



Sp. Char. M.ile: — Top of head gray; a nuchal patch of red; a malar 

 stripe of black ; sides of the head and throat pale chocolate ; a patch 

 of black on the breast; underparts dull yellowish white, heavily 

 spotted with black; upper surface pale chocolate brown, banded 

 with black; upper surface of primaries brown, having the shafts 

 bright yellow; under surface of wings pale yellow; tail dark 

 brown, some of the feathers showing narrow bands on the edges ; 

 under surface of tail yellow, feathers tipped with black; bill black 

 and feet dark brown. 



The female resembles the male, but differs from it in lacking the 

 black malar stripe, having the throat and sides of the head en- 

 tirely pale chocolate brown. 



Length, 10.50; wing, 5.40; tail, 4.50; tai'sus, .80; bill, 1.20. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Nesoceleus Sce. & Salv. 

 Nesoceleus Scl.\ter «Si Salvix, App. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 155 (1S73). 



/Nesoceleus fernandinae (Vig.). 



Colaptes ferna/idiiue Vig. Zool. Joura. 1S27, p. 445. — D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 148 (1840).— Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 

 104. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860). — 

 Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 295 (1866); ib. J. f. O. 

 1874. p. 155. — Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 202 (1S70). 



Picus fernafidi/ite Wagi.. Isis. 1S29, p. 517. 



