BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 41 



Island of Cuba (near Havana; San Diego de los BaQos; Holquin). 



Colapteafemandinss Vigors, Zool. Joum., iii, Dec, 1827, 445 (near Havana, Cuba; 

 coll. Zool. Soc). — D'Orbiqny, in La Sagra'sHist. Fis. Nat. Cuba, Aves, 1839, 

 112, pi. 24; Prencli ed., 148. — ^Wagner, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 

 1841, 100. — Dbnnt, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 39. — Bonaparte, Consp. 

 Av., i, 1850, 114. — Lembbte, Aves de la Ma de Cuba, 1850, 131. — Cabanis, 

 Joum. fiir Om., 1856, 104 (habits). — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1860, 307.— Gundlach, Repert. Fieico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 295; Joum. fiir 

 Om., 1874, 155 (habits).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picid*, 1868, 122. 



[Colaptes] femandinae Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 77. — Bona- 

 parte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126. — Gtindlach, Joum. ftir Om., 1861, 

 334.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 202, no. 8833. 



C[olaptes] femandinae Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 415, 

 pi. 667, fig. 4427. 



P[icus}/enumdinae Wagleb, Isis, 1829, 517. 



Geopicosfemandinse Malherbb, M^m. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 359. 



Geopietis femandinse Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 273; iv, 1862, pi. 113, 

 figs. 4, 5. 



\Nesocelem\fernandinse Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101. — Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 20.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 226. 



Nesoceleuafemandinx Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 380; Birds West Ind., 1889, 176; Cat. 

 West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 128.— Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 

 1890, 419. 



Nesoelevs femandinae Gundlach, Om. Cubana, ed. 1895, 144. 



Picus femandi Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 78. 



Genus MELANERPES S-wainson. 



MeUmerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 316. (Type, by orig. design., 

 Picus erythrocephalus Linnseus.) 

 . Melampicos Malherbe, M6m. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 363. (Type, as fixed by 

 Strickland, 1850, and Gray, 1855, Piciis erythrocephalus Linnaeus.) 



Melanopicos (emendation) Malherbe, Nouv. Classif. Picin., 1850, 46; see Strick- 

 land, in Jardiue's Contr. Om., 1850, 19. 



Mektmpicus (emendation) Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 192. 



Medium-sized Picidse (wing 112-150 mm.), with outer hind toe 

 shorter than anterior front toe, supranasal ridge distiuct only on 

 basal half of maxilla, plumage of throat and chest hair-like, crimson, 

 that of breast either hair-Hke and crimson or else blended and white, 

 and back glossy bluish or greenish black. 



Bill about as long as head, rather stout, a little wider than deep at 

 anterior end of nostrils (or about as wide in M. erythrocefhalus) ; cul- 

 men slightly but distinctly convex, distinctly ridged; gonys nearly 

 twice as long as mandibular rami {M. erythrocephalus) or about one 

 and a half times as long {M. portoricensis), convex and prominent 

 basaUy, straight and ascending terminally, distinctly ridged (at least 

 termiaally) ; supranasal ridge distinct for basal half or less of maxilla. 

 Nostril partly covered by small antrorse bristly prefrontal plumes, 

 rather large, broadly oval, situated about midway between culmen 

 and tomium. Feathers of malar apex bristly, antrorse, those of 

 chin with bristly semiantrorse tips. Wing rather long, the longest 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by more than length of exposed cul- 



