BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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FAMILY 



PICID^E. 



Subfamily, PICUMNIN^, 

 Genus: PICUMNUS. Temm. 

 PICUMNUS: TEMMINCK, NOUV. PEC. DE PL. COL. D'O/S., IV., 1820-1839. 



PICUMNUS LAWRENCE! Cory. 



Chloronerpes passerinus. Salle, P. Z. S., 1857, p. 234. 



Picus {Chloronerpes) passerinus. Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



XI. p. 96 (1866). 

 Picumnus micromegas. Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XI. 



p. 96 (1866). 



Picumnus lawrencei. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 129 

 (1881). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Tail soft, composed of ten feathers ; general 

 plumage above, olive green ; forehead showing a tinge of black ; 

 top of the head, bright yellow, cut by a band of red, again 

 becoming yellow at the base ; underparts, yellowish, palest on the 

 throat, mottled and streaked with brown feathers ; on the sides 

 of the neck marked with dull white, nearly joining above, forming 

 an imperfect collar ; wing coverts and outer webs of primaries and 

 secondaries, olive green ; inner webs, brown, becoming pale on the 

 edges; bill, legs, and feet, dark slate color; iris, reddish brown. 



