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more or less tinged or suffused with saffron yellowish posteriorly, the 

 abdomen (more or less extensively) bright poppy red; flanks broadly 

 but irregularly barred with dusky (the bars sometimes more or less 

 V-shaped) ; under tail-coverts similarly, but more distinctly, barred, 

 the ground color paler and more or less tinged with red; under wing- 

 coverts white, irregularly and rather sparsely barred with . black, 

 sometimes nearly immaculate; inner webs of remiges extensively 

 white basally, more or less barred with dusky; bill dull black; legs 

 and feet greenish dusky in dried skins (greenish gray or grayish green 

 in life?); length (skins), 259-300 (278); wing, 142.5-157.5 (147.3); 

 tail, 86.5-111 (99.5); cuhnen, 37.5-42.5 (39.8); tarsus, 25-27 (25.9); 

 outer anterior toe, 21.5-24 (22.6). » 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but crown pale brownish 

 gray, passing gradually into the dull whitish of forehead, and the 

 black supra-auricular areas connected by a broad band across occiput; 

 length (skms), 245-285 (261); wing, 137-150 (144.5); tail, 85-105 

 (98.7); cuhnen, 32.5-39.5 (35.5); tarsus, 23-27 (25.1); outer anterior 

 toe, 20-23 (21.7)." 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but red of frontlet less 

 extensive, paler; anterior portion of crown much duller red, the 

 remainder of crown and occiput black washed with red; back, scapu- 

 lars, chest, and breast tinged with red; posterior under parts less 

 distinctly barred. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but anterior portion of 

 crown pale buffy grayish, tinged with red. 



Island of Cuba (Remfidios; Fermina; Guam&; El Guamd; Hol- 

 quln; Guantinamo Bay; Trinid&d; Camagu^y; Yateras; Santiago 

 deCuba; San Diego delosBanos; Santa F6; Tuabfique). 



PicMS supereiliaris Temminck, PI. Col., 73e livr., 1827, pi. 433 and text (Cuba; 



coll. Mus. Pays-Ba8).— Lesson, Man. d'Om., 1828, 112; Trait6 d'Om., i, 1831, 



227; Compl. Buffon, ix, 1837, 324.— Cuvier, Rfegne Anim., 2 ed., 1829, 451.— 



Theineman, Joum. fiir Om., 1857, 153. — Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 



1866, 55. 

 P[ieus] superdliaris Waglee, leis, 1829, 515. 

 Colaptes supereiliaris Vigoes, Zool. Joum., iii, 1828, 445. — ^Waqnee, Wiegmann'a 



Archiv fiir Naturg., 1841, 100. — D'Oebigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 



Aves, 1839, 111, pi. 23 (albino); French ed., p. 146. — Lembeye, AveB de la 



Isla de Cuba, 1850, 131. 

 Zebrapims supereiliaris Malheebe, M6m. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 361; Mon. Picid., 



ii, 1862, 223; iv, 1862, pi. 102, figs. 1, 2, 3. 

 [Centurus] supereiliaris Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 118; Ateneo Italiano, ii, 



1854, 126.— GuNDLACH, Joum. ftir Om., 1861, 334; Repert. Fisieo-Nat. 



Cuba, i, 1866, 294. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101. — 



Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 20. 



"• Ten specimens. 



