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of malar region, dull white or buffy white, passing into very pale 

 grayish buffy or dull buffy grayish white on auricular region and 

 posterior portion of malar region; crown (except lateral-anterior por- 

 tion), occiput, and hindneck bright poppy red, somewhat lighter or 

 more scarlet posteriorly; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts broadly 

 and regularly barred with black and white, or yellowish white, the 

 black bars averaging rather narrower than the white interspaces; the 

 secondaries similarly but (except on inner or proximal ones) much 

 more broadly barred; primaries black, heavily blotched with white 

 on sub-basal portion of outer web, the inner quills broadly margined 

 at tip with white; rump and upper tail-coverts white, rather distantly 

 barred with black; tail black, the inner web of middle pair of rectrices 

 with several broad oblique bars, or transverse quadrate spots, of 

 white, the outer web with a longitudinal, wedge-shaped streak of 

 white on proximal portion (usually concealed, or mostly so, by upper 

 coverts), the outer pair with several broad bars or transverse spots 

 on distal portion; chin and upper throat (sometimes whole throat) 

 very pale ocherous gray or dull buffy grayish white, gradually deep- 

 ening into a more decided buffy grayish hue on foreneck, chest, 

 breast, sides, and upper abdomen, the under parts of body tinged or 

 stained with light ocher-yellow or dull gallstone yellow, especially on 

 upper abdomen; lower abdomen bright red superficially; flanks and 

 under tail-coverts dull white strongly tinged or washed with light 

 gallstone yellow (the under tail-coverts frequently tinged slightly 

 with red), broadly but not very sharply barred with blackish, the 

 bars more or less inclining to V-shaped form, especially on under 

 tail-coverts; bill slate-blackish, usually somewhat paler along gonys, 

 at least basally ; iris red or reddish brown ; legs and feet dusky gray- 

 ish in dried skins, pale ohve m life; length (skins), 232-248 (236); 

 wing, 127.5-132.5 (129.5); tail, 84.5-92 (88.9); culmen, 32-33.5 (32.9); 

 tarsus, 22.5-24 (23.1); outer anterior toe, 19.5-20.5 (20).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but crown dull white 

 (like forehead) anteriorly, shading gradually into light smoke gray 

 posteriorly; length (skins), 223-235 (224); wing, 128-131.5 (129.3); 

 tail, 89-93 (91.3); culmen, 28-28.5 (28.2); tarsus, 21-22 (21.7); 

 outer anterior toe, 18-18.5 (18.2).'' 



Watling Island, Bahamas. 



Centurus nyeanus Ridgway, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 336 (Watling I., Bahamas; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Cory, Birds West Ind., 1889, 295; Auk, v, 1888, 159; 



viii, 1891, 337. — Nye, Auk, xvi, 1899, 273 (supposed to be extinct — error). — 



Riley, Auk, xx, 1903, 434 (second specimen; crit.). 

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



Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 126, 127, 142. 



o Seven specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



