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Art. X. — Descriptions of new and little known species of Birds of the family Picidce 

 in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



By John Cassin. 



Genus POLIPICUS, Cassin. 



1. Polipicus, Cassin, Proc. Acad., Philada., 1863, p. 196. 



Belonging to the group Gecinince, G. R. Gray, and allied to the genus Gecinus, 

 Boie, especially to a subgroup, of which Gecinus pwticeus, (Horsf.) is the type. 

 Small, bill nearly straight and rather wide at base, wing rather long, first quill very 

 short, fourth, fifth and sixth longest, tail rather long and wide, feet short, outer hind 

 toe longest, inner hind toe short. 



The present species is unusually small for a bird of the group to which I regard 

 it as belonging;. 



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2. Polipicus Elliotii, Cassin. 



Polvpicus Elliotii, Cassin, Proc. Aca,d., Philada., 1863, p. 197. 



PLATE LI. Fig. 1. 



Wing rather long, first quill spurious, fifth slightly longest, tail long and wide. 

 Female ? Head above black, entire upper parts of body and wings of yellowish 

 olive-green, with a golden tinge on the exposed surface of shorter quills and with a 

 reddish tinge on the upper tail coverts. Primaries brownish black, slightly edged 

 with green on their outer webs and having large spots of yellowish white on their 

 inner webs, shafts of quills on their under surface yellowish white. Tail brownish 

 black, outer feathers with dull brownish white spots on their inner webs ; under 

 surface of tail tinged with pale greenish yellow. 



Superciliary line and cheeks dull buff, throat and under parts of body greenish 

 or yellowish white, paler and nearly pure white on the throat and darker on the 

 breast, and the entire under parts with longitudinal stripes of brownish black, very 

 narrow on the throat and wider on the breast. Flanks and under tail coverts with a 

 few irregular bands, and saggitate spots of the same brownish black. Bill light 



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