BIRDS OF SrOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 113 



LINNEOPICUS HERMINIERI (Lesson). 



GUADELOUPE W00DPECB3!R. 



Adults {sexes dlilce). — Above uniform glossy blue-black, the pileum 

 less glossy, less bluish; under parts slightly glossy bluish or greenish 

 black, the chest and median portion of breast and upper abdomen 

 more or less strongly suffused or tinged with dusky red or maroon; 

 bill black; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skms), 228-263 (243); wing, 131.5-138 

 (135); tail, 80-99.5 (88); culmen, 32.5-39.5 (33.4); tarsus, 26-28 

 (27.1); outer anterior toe, 21-24 (22.9)." 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 224-242 (234); wing, 125.5-132.5 

 (128.6); tail, 77-93 (87.6); culmen, 26-28 (27.1); tarsus. 23-24.5 

 (23.7); outer anterior toe, 19-20.5 (19.8).* 

 Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. 

 Picas herminien Lesson, Traits d'Om., 1831, 228 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; 

 coll. Paris Mus.). — Dbs Mubs, Icon. Om., livr. 7, Dec, 1846, tab. contents, 

 pi. 38. — Sdndbvall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 51. 

 Melampkos herminieri Malhbebe, M4m. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 365. 

 Melampicus herminieri Maxherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 198; iv, 1862, pi. 100, 



fig. 1. 

 [Melanerpes] herminieri Bonapaktb, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 115. — Gray, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 201, no. 8822.— Sharpb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210. 

 M[elanerpes] hrminierii Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picidse, 1854, 881, 



pi. 643, figs. 4280-4281. 

 Melanerpes herminieri Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidae, 1868, 117. — Har- 



GiTT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 163.— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 



12, 133. 

 [Melanerpes] I'herminieri Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100. — 



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

 Melanerpes I'herminieri Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 459, 487. — 



Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 377; viii, 1891, 48; Birds West Ind., 1889, 172; Oat. 



West Ind. Birds, 1892, 104. 

 lAmieopicMS herminieri Malherbe, Nouv. Classif. Pic, 1850, 53. 

 [lAnnseipicus] herminieri Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 10). 



Genus ASYNDESMUS Coues. 



Asyndesmus Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 55. (Type, by original desig- 

 nation, Picas torquatus Wi\aon= AsyndesmAis levdsi BUey.) 



Eather large Picidse (wing 162-180 mm.), resembling Mdanerpes, 

 but with relatively longer wing, more slender and less distinctly 

 ridged bill, and with plumage of under parts and hindneck peculiar 

 (coarse and hair-like) . 



Bill about as long as head, rather slender, about as deep as broad at 

 nostrils, more compressed terminally ; culmen slightly but distinctly 

 convex, not sharply ridged; gonys more than twice as long as man- 

 dibular rami, nearly straight, not prominent basaUy, rather distinctly 



■i Ten specimens. 6 Five specimens. 



3022°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 8 



