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lower basal portion of mandible ; legs and feet grayish dusky (bluish 

 gray or greenish gray in life?); length (skins), 205-253 (232); wing, 

 123-131.5 (127.8); tail, 80-94 (87); culmen, 31-37 (33.6); tarsus, 

 22.5-24 (23.5); outer anterior toe, 19-21 (20.2).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but crown and occiput 

 pale buffy gray (deeper posteriorly), the upper part of occiput, or 

 hind part of crown, irregularly barred or spotted with black; length 

 (skins), 212-245 (227); wing, 116-128 (123.8); tail, 80.5-91.5 (85.8); 

 culmen, 29-33.5 (30.4); tarsus, 21-23.5 (22.3); outer anterior toe, 

 19-20 (19.2).^ 



Grand Cayman Island, south of Cuba. 



Centurus caymaneJisis Cory, Auk, iii, Oct., 1886, 499, 502 (Grand Cayman, W. I.; 



coll. C. B. Cory); v, 1888, 158; Birds West Ind., 1889, 295.— Ridgway, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 574 (Grand Cayman).— Lowe, Ibis, 1909, 341 (Grand 



Cayman). 

 Melanerpes caymanensis Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 169. — Cory, 



Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 129, 142.— Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 584 (Grand 



Cayman; crit.). — Lowe, Ibis, 1911, 150. 

 [Melanerpes] caymanensis Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211. 



CENTURUS DUBIUS DUBIUS (Cabot). 

 ttxmAl woodpeckee. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck bright poppy red, interrupted 

 by a frontal band of dull white, the latero-frontal (post-nasal) region 

 shghtly paler red, usually narrowly margined anteriorly and below 

 by whitish; back, scapulars, and upper rump black, narrowly barred 

 with wliite or dull yellowish wliite; lower rump and upper tail- 

 coverts immaculate wliite; tail black, the lateral rectrices with a 

 few narrow bars on terminal portion, their under surface more grayish 

 or hoary; wings black, the coverts and proximal secondaries (tertials) 

 narrowly barred with white, the distal secondaries more broadly 

 barred or transversely spotted with the same; primaries narrowly 

 edged with whitish or grayish for terminal half (approximately), the 

 shorter (innermost) ones margined terminally with white; sides of 

 head (including a broad superciliary stripe), chin, and throat, dull 

 grayish white or very pale buflfy grayish, gradually deepening in 

 color on foreneck, sides of neck, chest, breast, and sides into very 

 pale yellowish gray; abdomen (superficially) bright poppy red; 

 flanks and under tail-coverts white, more or less sufi^used with red, 

 rather broadly barred with black, the bars on under tail-coverts 

 more or less V- or U-shaped; under wing-coverts white, barred with 

 blackish; inner webs of primaries rather broadly barred with white 

 for basal half (approximately), the inner webs of secondaries more 



° Ten specimens. b Nine specimens. 



