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Genus CENTURUS Swainson. 



Cenlurus Swainson, Classif. Birds, II, [July 1] 1837, 310. Type, by 

 monotypy, Picus carolinus Linnaeus. 



Centurus carolinus (Linnaeus) . Red-bellied Woodpecker. [409.] 



Picus carolinus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 113. Based on The 

 Red-bellied Woodpecker, Picits ventre rubro Catesby, Carolina, I, 19. 

 (in America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Upper and Lower Austral zones of the eastern United States from 

 southeastern South Dakota, southeastern Miimesota, southwestern Ontario, 

 western New York, southern Pennsylvania (locally), and Delaware south to 

 central Texas, the Gulf coast, and Florida Keys. Casual north to Colorado, 

 Massachusetts, and New York; accidental in Arizona and northwestern 

 Nebraska. 



Centurus aurifrons (Wagler). Golden-fronted Woodpecker. [410.] 



Picus Aurifrons "Lichtenst.," Wagler, Isis von Oken, XXII, 1829, 

 Heft V (May), col. 512. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Central northern Texas south to the Valley of Mexico. 



Centurus uropygialis uropygialis Baird. Gila Woodpecker. [411.] 



Centurus urojnjgialis Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, No. 3, 

 May- June, 1854 [Oct. 20], 120. (Bill Williams Fork of Colorado River, New 

 Mexico =Arizona.) 



Range. — Lower part of the Lower Austral Zone, from the Colorado Valley in 

 northeastern Lower California, southeastern California, and the extreme 

 southeastern corner of Nevada east through southern Arizona to southwestern 

 New Mexico and south through western Mexico to Nayarit and Jalisco. 



Centurus uropygialis cardonensis Grinnell. Cardon Woodpecker. [411a.] 



Centurus uropygialis cardonensis Grinnell, Condor, XXIX, No. 3, May 

 15, 1927, 168. (Mouth of Canon San Juan de Dios, within ten miles 

 east of El Rosario, near lat. 30°, Baja [ =Lower] California.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone, between lat. 28° and lat. 30°, across the 

 peninsula of Lower California and north along the western rim of the Colorado 

 Desert to about lat. 32°. 



Centurus uropygialis brewsteri Ridgway. Brewster's Woodpecker. [4116.] 



Centurus uropygialis brewsteri Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, 

 No. 9, Feb. 24, 1911, 32. (Santiago, southern Lower California.) 



