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e\ Larger (wing 4.85 to more than 5.00) ; frontlet (nasal tufts) 

 red. 

 p. Middle tail-feathers varied with white ; red of crown in 

 male confluent with that of nasal tufts ; belly paler 

 red, or pinkish red. Adult male : Whole top of head 

 and hind-neck bright red. Adult female: Similar to 

 male, but crown ash-gray. Young : With colors much 

 duller than in adult, and all the markings less sharply 

 defined ; the red of the head indistinct, that of the 

 belly often replaced by dull buffy. Length (fresh) 

 9.00-10.10, wing 4.85-5.50, tail 3.50-3.95, culmen 1.00- 

 1.20. Eggs .96 X -71. Hab. Eastern United States, 

 west to eastern base of Eocky Mountains, south to 

 Florida and central Texas ; rare or accidental east of 

 Hudson Eiver. 



409. M. carolinus (Linn.). Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



f\ Middle tail-feathers entirely uniform black; white bars 



of back, etc., very much narrower than black ones ; 



red of crown in adult male separated from that of 



nasal tufts by a white band ; middle of belly intense 



red. 



g^. Eump and upper tail-coverts immaculate white ; 



lower parts paler. Hab. Yucatan. 



M. dubius (Cabot). Uxmal Woodpecker.^ 

 g'^. Eump and upper tail-coverts more or less barred or 

 otherwise marked with black; lower parts darker. 

 Sab. Cozumel Island, Yucatan. 



M. leei Kidgw. Lee's Woodpecker.' 

 el Smaller (wing less than 4.50) ; frontlet (nasal tufts) yellow. 

 (Otherwise similar in color to M. dubius, but middle tail- 

 feathers more or less varied with white toward base.) 

 p. Larger and lighter colored, with less white on middle 

 tail-feathers ; wing 4.20-4.40. Hab. Yucatan. 



M. rubriventris (Swains.). Swainson's Woodpecker.' 

 /I Smaller and darker, with more white on middle tail- 

 feathers; wing 3.80-3.95. Hab. Cozumel Island, 

 Yucatan. 



M. pygmaeus Kidgw. Pygmy Woodpecker.* 

 Middle of belly yellow or (rarely) orange. 

 e\ Hind-neck yellow, orange, or orange-red. 



/\ Bars on back, etc., narrow, the white ones decidedly nar- 



1 Picua dubius Cabot, Jour. Boston Soc. v. 1845, 91. 



» Centnrus leei RiDGW., Descr. N. Sp. B. Cozumel, Feb. 26, 1885, 2. 



' Centurus ruhriventria SwAINS., Anim. in Menag. 1S38, 354. 



* Centurus rubriventris pygmxus RiDGW., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. viii. Oct. 17, 1885, 676. 



