554 NORTH AilERIC^VN BIRDS. 



C. carolinus. Sliddle of belly reddisli ; wliole crown and nape red in male. 

 Xapf, mily, red in female. 



Forehead reddish ; beneath soiled ashy -white ; abdomen pinkish-red ; 

 crissum with sagittate marks of dusky. Wing, 5.25 ; tail, 3.80 ; bill, 

 1.30. Hah. Eastern Province United States . . . var. carolinus. 



Forehead smoky-white ; beneath smoky-olive, middle of abdomen car- 

 mine-red ; crissum with broad transverse bars of dusky. Wing. 4.50 ; 

 tail. 2.00; bill, 1.08. Hah. Central America; Venezuela . var. tricolor.^ 

 C. aurifrons. Middle of belly yellowish ; red of crown, in male, confined 

 to an ovoid vertical patch. Nape and forehead gamboge-yellow ; white of 

 rump and upper tail-coverts immaculate. Female without any red on the 

 crown. 



Inner webs of middle tail-feathers unvariegated black. Lower parts 

 dirty ashy-wliitish, abdomen dilute gamboge-yellow. Wing, 5.20 ; tail, 

 3.60 ; bill, 1.50. Hah. Eastern Mexico, north to the Rio G-rande. 



var. a u r ifr ons. 

 Inner webs of middle tail-feathers spotted with white. Lower parts 

 smoky-olive, belly bright orange-yellow. Wing. 4.70 ; tail, 2.80 ; bill, 



1.16. Hah. Costa Rica tm: hoffmanni.- 



C. uropygialis. Middle of the belly yellowish. Nape and forehead soft 

 smokj' grayish-brown. Female without red or yellow on head. White of 

 rump and upper tail-coverts with transverse dusky bars. Inner webs of 

 middle tail-feathers spotted with white. Wing, 5.30 ; tail, 3.70 ; bill, 1.3.5. 

 Hub. Western Mesico, north into Colorado, region of iliddle Province of 

 United States. 



Centurus caroKnus, Bonap. 



RED-BELLIED WOODPECKEK. 



Picus caroHmts, LiNX. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 174. —Wilson, Am. Om. I, 1808, 113, pi. vii, 

 f. 2. — AuD. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 169, pi. cccc.xv. — Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 270, 

 pi. cclxx. — Max. Cab. .Tour. 1858, 418. — Suxdevall, Consp. 53. Centurus carolinus, 

 Sw. Bp. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, Av. 1850, 119. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 109. — 

 Cab. Jour. 1862, 324. — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 469 (resident in Texas). — Sol. Cat. 

 1862, 342. — GR.A.T, Cat. 99. — Allen, B. E. Fla. 306. Cmturus carolinaisis, Sw. 

 Birds, II, 1837, 310 (error). Picus griseiis, ViElLL. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 52, pi. 

 exvi. ? Picu^ crythrattchcn , Wagler, Syst. A\'iuni, 1827. Picus zebra, THovDmRT, 

 Tab!, pi. enl. (Gray, genera). 



Sp. Cuar. Third, fourth, and fifth quills nearly equal, and longest; second, or outer- 

 most, and seventh about equal. Top of the head and nape crimson-red. Forehead whitish, 

 strongly tinged with light red, a shade of which is also seen on the cheek, still stronger on 

 the middle of the belly. Under parts browni.sh-white, with a faint wa.sh of yellowish on 

 the belly. Back, rump, and wing-coverts banded black and white ; upper tail-covert white, 

 with occasional blotches. Tail-feathers black ; first transversely banded with white ; sec- 

 ond less so ; all the rest with whitish tips. Inner feathers banded with white on the 



1 Centums carolinus, var. tricolor. Pieus tricolor, Wagl. Isis, 1829, 512. Centurus tri. Scl. 

 Catal. Am. B. 1862, 343. C. suhclcgans, ScL. P. Z. S. 1855, 162 ; 1856, 143. 



^ Centurus aurifrons, var. Iwffmanni. Centurus hoffmanni, Cabanis, Joum. Sept. 1862, 322 

 (Costa Rica). 



