170 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 410-451 (430.5); wing, 236-250 

 (243); tail, 137-154 (145.2); culmen, 59-61 (60); tarsus, 40-42 (41); 

 outer anterior toe, 31.5-33.5 (32.5)." 



Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 422; wing, 240-255 (247.5); tail, 

 159.5-165.5 (162.5); culmen, 58-60 (59); tarsus, 41; outer anterior 

 toe, 30.5-31.5 (31).° 



Island of Cuba (Monte Verde). 



Picus principalis (not of Linnaeus) D'Ohbignt, in La Sagia's Hist. Pis., etc., 



Cuba, Avea, 1839, 107; French ed., p. 140.— Lbmbetb, Aves de la Isla de 



Cuba, 1850, 131. 

 CampepUlus principalis (not of Gray) Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., 1856, 102.— 



Brewer, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Gundlaoh, Joum. fiir 



Om., 1861, 415 (crit.). 

 [CampepMlus] principalis Gitndlach, Joum. fiir Orn., 1861, 334. 

 CampepUlus bairdii Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., xv, 1863, 322 (Cuba; 



coU. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.). — Gundlach, Repert. Pisico-Nat. Cuba, 



i, 1866, 293; Joum. fiir Om., 1866, 352; 1871, 293; 1874, 148 (habits); Contr. 



Om. Cuba, 1876, 113, 273; Om. Cubana, ed. 1895, 137.— Gray, List Birds 



Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 53. 

 [CampepMlus] bairdii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 187, no. 8622. 

 [CampephiliLS principalis] var. bairdi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 496. 

 [CampepMlus] principalis bairdi Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19. 

 CampepMlus principalis bairdi Cory, Auk, iti, 1886, 373; Birds West Ind., 1889, 



168; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 128. 

 C[ampepMlus] principalis bairdi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 281. 

 CampopMlus bairdi Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 465. 

 [CampopMlus] bairdi Sbaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 228. 

 CampepMlus bairdi Maynard, Cat. Birds W. I., 1903, 12 (Cuba). 

 [Plots] bairdi (not of Malherbe, 1861) Giebel, Thes. Om., iii, 1876, 144, part. 

 [Piots principalis] 2 C. Varietas s. stirps insularis Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 



1866, 5. 



Genus SCAPANEUS Cabanis and Heine. 



Scapaneus b Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, July 6, 1863, 90. 

 (Type, Picus mslanoleucus Gmelin.) 



Large Picidse (wing about 165-209 mm.) resembling CampepTiilus 

 but differing in relatively much shorter and less depressed bill, with 

 shorter gonys Oess than three instead of nearly four times as long 

 as mandibular rami), much longer and broader and non-falcate, tenth 

 primary (decidedly more than half to nearly two-thirds as long as 

 ninth and one-seventh, or more, as broad as long), much less develop- 

 ment of feathers on chin, much more extensively (and completely) 

 naked orbital region, and barred (instead of uniform black) under 

 parts. 



" Two specimens. 6 "(j/cajtavsif (Pionier) entlehnt." (Cabanis and Heine.) 



