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Bangs, Birds of Sari Miguel Island. 



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five lit in a tree near him. He tried to get in position to kill more than 

 one at a shot but was unable to do so before thej took alarm, and he had 

 to content himself with a single individual. 



Crotophaga ani Linn. — One adult male, taken April 30. 



Nyctidromus albicoUis {Gmel.). — One female, April 29. 



Ceryle torquata {Linn.). — One adult male, Mav 8. 



Ceryle inda i^Linn.). — Two males. May 4. 



Malanerpes seductus, i sp. nov. 



Fourteen specimens, twelve adults, including both sexes, and two 

 nearlj full grown young, the male taken April 25, the female, May 6. 



Type from San Miguel Island, Panama, $ adult, No. 4892, coll. of E. 

 A. and O. Bangs. Collected April 27, 1900, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Specijjc characters. — An island form of the M. zvagleri series. 

 Similar in general to M. ivagleri Salv. and Godm. of Panama, but 

 slightly smaller and differing in the following details of coloration '■ 

 scarlet belly patch more extensive, reaching under tail-coverts, many of 

 these feathers being tipped and edged with scarlet, and extending for. 

 ward to breast; rest of under parts (throat, breast and sides) reddish 

 buff, some of the feathers of chin, throat and malar region, in the male 

 tipped with scarlet (in M. zvagleri the under parts — throat, breast and 

 sides — are smoke gray with a yellow suffusion); nasal tufts of male 

 reddish (yellowish in M. zvagleri). 



Measurements. 



Remarks. — This new woodpecker was one of the commoner 



' Seductus, remote, living in solitude or apart. 



