CAMPEPHILUS. 281 



GENUS CAMPEPHILUS GRAY. (Page 280, pi. LXXXIL, fig. 1.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS (of North American species). Bill ivory-yellow or 

 whitish ; plumage mainly black, with a white scapular stripe and other markings, 

 the occipital crest scarlet or glossy black. 



a\ Plumage glossy black, with scapulars, secondaries, ends of shorter primaries, 

 and under wing-coverts pure white ; crest of female entirely glossy blue- 

 black. 

 b l . A white stripe down each side of neck ; nasal tufts white. 



c 1 . White neck-stripe not extending to the bill ; black feathers of crown as 

 long as or longer than underlying scarlet ones of crest ; length (fresh) 

 19.75-21.00, extent of wings 30.00-32.00, wing 9.00-10.00, tail 6.25- 

 6.80, culmen 2.60-2.80. Eggs 1.31 X -86. Hob. Formerly, southern 

 Atlantic and Gulf States and lower Mississippi Yalley, north to 

 North Carolina, eastern Missouri, southern Illinois and Indiana, 

 and west to eastern Texas ; now apparently confined to restricted 

 localities in Gulf States (including Florida) and lower Mississippi 



Yalley 392. C. principalis (LINN.). Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 



c 2 . White neck-stripe continued to base of bill ; black feathers of crown not 

 reaching to tip of scarlet crest ; wing 9.50-9.70, tail 6.50-7.00, ex- 

 posed culmen 2.30-2.40. Hab. Cuba. 



C. principalis bairdi (CAss.). Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 1 



b". No white stripe on side of neck ; nasal tufts black ; length about 23.00- 

 24.00, wing 11.70-13.20, tail 8.00-9.50, exposed culmen 2.70-3.60. Hab. 

 Western Mexico, north, along Sierra Madre, nearly if not quite to 

 United States boundary ; southeastern Arizona ? 



C. imperialis ( GOULD). Imperial Woodpecker. 2 



a 2 . Plumage chiefly dull brownish black, the lower parts, except breast, barred with 

 black and pale fulvous ; crest of female bright red (whole head red in male). 

 Length about 12.00-13.00, wing 7.50-8.00, tail 4.80-5.20, exposed culmen 

 1.85-2.20. Hab. Southern Mexico, and south to Costa Rica. 



C. guatemalensis (HARTL.). Guatemalan Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 3 



GENUS DRYOBATES BOIE. (Page 280, pi. LXXXIIL, figs. 1-2 ; pi. LXXXVL, 



fig. 1.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Above black or brown, more or less spotted or 

 otherwise varied with white ; lateral tail-feathers white, with or without black 



1 Campephilus bairdi CASS., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 322. C. principalis, var. bairdi B. B. & R. 

 Hist. N. Am. B. ii. 1874, 496. 



2 Picus imperialis GOULD, P. Z. S. ii. 1832, 140. Campephilus imperialis BAIRD. B. N. Am. 1858, 83. 



8 Picus guatemalensie HARTL., Rev. Zool. 1844, 214. Campephilus guatemalensis SCL., Cat. Am. B. 1862, 

 331. 



