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M[elanerpes] nyeanus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 292. 

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

 Centurus superciliaris nyeanus Riley, Auk, xxii, Oct., 1905, 355 (crit.). 

 Centurus nyeanus nyeanus Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, Oct., 1911, 421 (crit). — 

 WoRTHiNGTON, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, 1911, 454 (habits, etc.). 



CENTURUS CAYMANENSIS Cory. 



CAYMAN WOODPECKER. 



Somewhat like C. superciliaris but smaller; no trace of black 

 superciliary spot; back, etc., more narrowly barred with black; post- 

 nasal red spot nearly obsolete and under parts paler and less yel- 

 lowish; adult female without a black occipital area. 



Adult male. — Forehead and superciliary region dull brownish white, 

 the former tinged with red on the latero-frontal antise; crown, occi- 

 put, and hindneck bright poppy red, the first rather deeper, more 

 carmine; back, scapulars, and rump barred with black on a pale buffy 

 yellowish ground, the black bars much narrower than the interspaces ; 

 upper tail-coverts dull white, more or less tinged with buify yellowish, 

 narrowly and distantly barred, or otherwise marked, with black; tail 

 black, the middle pair of rectrices with broad, oblique bars of white 

 or yellowish white on inner web, and quadrate spots or a narrowly 

 wedge-shaped streak of the same on outer web, the lateral rec- 

 trices broadly barred terminally and on outer web of the outermost 

 with the same; wing-coverts barred with black and brownish white 

 or buffy white, the black bars much narrower than the whitish inter- 

 spaces; secondaries broadly barred with black and white or dull yel- 

 lowish white, the bars of the two colors about equal in width, the 

 black bars broadly confluent along the median (concealed) portion 

 of each quill; primaries dull slate-blackish, their outer webs more or 

 less spotted or otherwise varied with white basally and edged ter- 

 minally with white, the inner primaries also tipped, more or less, 

 with white; primary coverts and alulae black, the latter sometimes 

 narrowly edged with white; sides of head and neck and most of lower 

 parts plain pale buffy grayish (much more buffy or yellowish than 

 drab-gray), becoming gradually but decidedly paler on upper throat, 

 chin, and malar and suborbital regions, the upper abdomen sometimes 

 rather strongly tinged with yellowish; lower abdomen, superficially, 

 bright, rather light, red; flanks and under tail-coverts dull whitish, 

 strongly suffused w^ith pale buff-yellowish, and barred (rather dis- 

 tantly) with dusky, the bars on under tail-coverts more or less 

 V-shaped; under wing-coverts dull white with a few irregular and 

 rather indistinct bars of dusky; inner webs of primaries with large 

 blotches or irregular areas of w^hite on basal portion, the inner webs of 

 secondaries very broadly barred with white; bill dull black, paler on 

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