BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 97 



[Centurus] uropygialis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 196, part (Cape San 

 Lucas). 



C[enturus] uropygialis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 98, part.— 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 488, part (Cape San Lucas). 



Melanerpes uropygialis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., \dii, no. 23, Sept. 2, 

 1885, 355, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 411, part (Lower California). — Bryant (W. E.), Proc. CaL Ac. Sci., 

 eer. 2, 1889, 287 (Cape district and Santa Margarita I., Lower California). — ■ 

 TowNSEND (C.H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 137 (Cape San Lucas; La 

 Paz). — Hargitt, Cat. BirdsBrit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 182, part (La Paz, San Jose 

 del Cabo, and Cape San Lucas, Lower California). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 423, part (Lower California). — Brewster, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 107 (Cape San Lucas district; description). 



M[elanerpes] uropygialis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294, part. 



[Melanerpes] uropygialis Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 212, part. 



Centurus uropygialis hrewsteri Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 

 1911, 32 (Santiago, s. Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



CENTURUS RADIOL ATUS (Wagler). 



JAMAICAN WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Crown, occiput, nape, and hindneck bright crimson 

 or carmine; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, and wings 

 black, the back, scapulars, and wings (except primaries) very nar- 

 rowly barred with white or whitish, the lower rump and upper tail- 

 coverts more broadly barred with white, the inner web of middle 

 pair of rectrices also with a few narrow bars of the same; forehead 

 and lores pale buffy brownish or dull buffy whitish, passing into 

 white on posterior portion of loral region, superciliary region (except 

 posteriorly), suborbital and malar regions, chin, and throat; upper 

 posterior portion of superciliary region, post-auricular region, and 

 foreneck light grayish brown (nearly broccoli brown), this passing 

 into deep yellowish olive on chest, breast, and sides; abdomen and 

 flanks barred with dusky and pale yellowish olive, the first strongly 

 suffused with saffron yellow to vermilion or poppy red, or nearly 

 uniformly yellow or red; thighs, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 

 coverts black, barred with white; bill dull black; legs and feet dusky 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 250-278 (261); w^ng, 126-140 

 (134.4); tail, 81-94 (87.7); culmen, 32.5-38.5 (35.5); tarsus, 23.5- 

 26.5 (25.2); outer anterior toe, 21.5-24 (22.9).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but red of head con- 

 fined to nape and hindneck, the crown and occiput plain browTiish 

 gray (smoke gray anteriorly deepening into mouse gray posteriorly) ; 

 length (skins), 240-260 (251); wing, 127.5-137 (131.7); tail, 78-90.5 

 (85.3); culmen, 31-36 (33.3); tarsus, 23-26.5 (24.2); outer anterior 

 toe, 20.5-23 (22).« 



o Ten specimens. 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 7 



