THE BIRDS 



OF 



NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



By Robert Eidgwat, 



Owator, Division of Birds. 



Part VI. 



Suborder PICARI^E. 



FICABX&H BIB.DS. 



>Picm» NrrzscH, Syet. Pterylog., 1840, 132 (Capitoiiidse+Bucconidse+ 



Bamphastidae 4-PicidsB). 

 —?Phloeodrominss A. Milne-Edwards, Ois. Fobs., ii, 1867-1871. 

 ,1 , '^Picarise (not of NitzBch, 1820, except in small part only) Gabbod, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1874, 117 (Picidse+Eamphastidse+OapitonidsB). 

 "^Coccyges zygodactyly Sclatbb and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 104 (Gal- 



bulidse+Bucconidse+Bamphastidse) . 

 '^Zygodactyly (not Zygodactyli Vieillot, 1816) Sclatbe, Ibis, 1880, 402 (excludes 



Pici). 

 =Scansores (not of lUiger, 1811) Sebbohm, Clasaif. Birds, 1890, pp. vii, xi, 6. 

 "^Scansores Sbcakpb, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 83 (excludes Galbulse and Pici). 

 "^Piciformes Shabpb, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 84 (excludes Oapitones and 



Ramphastides) . 

 =Picoideie Stejnbgbk, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 412. 

 "^Piaine Scansores Seebohm, Classif. Birds, 1890, 6 (excludes Gralbulse). 

 "^Pid (not of Meyer and WoU, 1810) Fubrbrinseb, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., 



1888, 1567 (excludes Galbulse). 

 =PiaGADOW, in Bronn's Thier-Reich, Vog., ii, 1893, 259, 301; Classif. Vertebr., 

 1898, pp. XV, 37. — Beddabd, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 183. — Knowl- 

 TON, Birds of the World, 1909, 50. 

 Antiopelmous and zygodactylous Coraciiform birds with myo- 

 logical formula AXY or AX, flexor tendons of type VI (in this 

 respect unique), hypotarsus complex, and spina interna absent. 



Palate saurognathous or schizo-aegithognathous (Pici), agithogna- 

 thous or segitho-desmognathous (Capitones) or desmognathous 

 (Galbulse and Ramphastides); basipterygoid processes absent; 

 vomer present or absent; coracoids separated; cervical vertebrae 

 14; metastemum 4-notched or with 4 foramina; spina externa 

 present, forked (Galbulse, Pici) or simple (Capitones, Ramphastides) ; 

 syrinx tracheo-bronchial; two carotid arteries (Galbulse) or only one 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 1 



