98 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Young female. — Similar to the adult female, but median portion 

 of crown and occiput red (more or less extensively), and abdomen 

 less strongly suffused with red. 



Island of Jamaica (Spanishtown; Moneague; IMansfield, near Bath; 

 Windsor; Priestmans River; Westmoreland; Kingston; St. Catherine; 

 Port Henderson). 



[Picas] carolinus (not of Linnaeus, 1758) Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766^ 

 175, part (Jamaica). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 431, part (Jamaica). 



P[icus\ radiolatus Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Picus, sp. 39 (Jamaica); Isis, 1829, 

 512. 



Picus radiolatus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 52. 



C[enturus] radiolatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 442.— Newton (A. and E.), 

 Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 109.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 98 

 (diagnosis). 



Centurus radiolatus Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 271.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1861, 79; Cat. Am. Birds. 1862, 343.— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Om., 

 1862, 203.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 284.— Ridgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 111 (monogr.).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 

 1882, 399.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 378; Birds West Ind., 1889, 173.— Scott, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 275. — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 124 (Port Henderson, Jamaica; 

 habits, etc.). 



[Centurus] radiolatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 118; Ateneo Italiano, ii, 



1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 11.)— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 



Neotr., 1873, 100.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 20. 



Zebrapicus radiolatus Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 237; iv, 1862, pi. 104, 

 figs. 5, 6. 



Melanerpes radiolatus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 166 (Moneague 

 and Spanishtown, Jamaica).— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 130. 



[Melanerpes] radiolatus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210. 



l?)Picus albifrons SwAiNSON,a Philos. Mag., n. s., i, June, 1827, 439 ("table- 

 land" of Mexico — error?; coll. Bullock). — Lesson, Compl. Buffon, ix, 

 1837, 318. 



P[icus] albifrons Wagler, Isis, 1829, 514. 



Picus larvatus Temminck, PL Col., iv, livr. 73, 1827, in text to P. superciliaris. 



CENTURUS STRIATUS (Miiller). 



HAITIAN WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Crown, occiput, nape, post-auricular region, and 

 hindneck bright crimson or dark poppy red, the feathers slate-grayish 

 beneath the surface; forehead and superciliary region (broadly) light 

 smoke gray, the loral, suborbital, auricular, and malar regions, chin, 

 and upper throat darker or more brownish gray (between pale hair 

 brown and drab-gray) ; a white line down side of neck, with a black 

 line between it and the red of post-auricular region; back and scapu- 

 lars black, sharply and regularly barred with light w^ax yellow or olive- 

 yellow, sometimes ocher yellow (rarely orange-ochraceous), the rump 



o The full description is as follows: 



"Above blackish, transversely marked with white lines, beneath olivaceous; front, 

 chin, and sides of the head red; crown and neck red. 

 "Table land: rare. 

 "Total length, 10| [inches]; bill Ix^a; wings, 5; tail, 4." 



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