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Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1895, 152 (Wabash, Indiana, abundant resident). — 

 Lawrence (R. B.), Auk, xiii, 1896, 82 (Flushing, Babylon, and Raynor 

 South, Long Island; 3 specs.). — Oberholser, Bull. Ohio Agric. Exp. Sta., 

 tech. ser., i, 1896, 290 (Wayne Co., n. e. Ohio, common resident). — Hadley, 

 Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1897, 187 (Richmond, Wayne Co., Indiana, resident). — 

 Cooke, Bull. Col. Agric. Coll., no. 37, 1897, 84 (Greeley, etc., Colorado; very 

 rare); no. 56, 1900, 208 (Limon, Colorado, 1 spec. May, 1899). — Jones, 

 Wilson Bull., no. 16, 1897, 61 (Oberlin, Ohio; increasing); no. 22, 1898, 62 

 (Lorain Co., Ohio; increasing). — Beyer, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 

 (1900), 103 (Louisiana, resident).— Fisher (W. H.), Auk, xx, 1903, 305 

 (Harford Co., Maryland, breeding). 



[Melanerpes] carolinus Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211. 



C[enturus] carolinensis Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 310. 



Centurus carolinensis Abbott, Am. Nat., iv, 1870, 538 (New Jersey). — Beck- 

 ham, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 164 (Bayou Sara, Louisiana). — Seton, 

 Auk, ii, 1885, 335 (Toronto, Ontario). 



Picus zebra Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 43 (based on Epeiche ou Pic raye de 

 la Louisiane Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 692). 



Picus carolinus vai\ y. LatSam, Index Orn., i, 1790, 231. 



Picus griseus Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 62, pi. 116 (Pennsylvania, New 

 Jersey, etc.). — Bonnaterre and Vieillot, Enc. Meth., iii, 1823, 1308. 



P[icus] erythrauchen Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Picus, sp. 38 (new name for Picus 

 carolinus Linnaeus); Isis, 1829, 513. 



Picus querulus (not of Wilson) Haymond, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 293 

 (s. e. Indiana). 



CENTURUS SUPERCILIARIS SUPERCILIARIS (Temminck). 



SUPERCILIARY WOODPECKER. 



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

 or carmine, rather lighter on the hmdneck; back and scapulars 

 broadly barred with black and pale buffy yellowish, the bars of the 

 latter rather narrower than the black interspaces; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts white, barred with black, the black markings more spot- 

 like, more or less cordate, on rump, usually V- or U-shaped on longer 

 upper tail-coverts; tail black, the middle pair of rectrices broadly 

 barred with white (white bars sometimes broader than the white 

 interspaces), the lateral rectrices more narrowly barred with white, 

 at least on outer web and terminal portion of inner web; wings black, 

 the coverts and secondaries broadly barred with white (the white bars 

 sometimes exceeding the black interspaces in width, either on coverts 

 or secondaries), the basal portion of primaries spotted or otherwise 

 marked with white; forehead and anterior portion of superciliary 

 region dull grayish white or brownish white, the latero-frontal or 

 post-nasal region red; a large, elongated supra-auricular spot or patch 

 of black, extending anteriorly around upper portion of eye to the 

 a.nterior angle of the latter; loral and suborbital regions white, passing 

 into duller white or very pale grayish buffy on auricular and malar 

 regions, the chin and upper throat similar but slightly darker; under 

 parts mostly plain light buffy grayish brown to dull brownish buffy, 



