PKOCEEDIXGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 99 

 1. CENTURUS CAEOLINUS. 



£peiche on Pic rayS de la Louisiane, Buff. Ois. vii, 73. 



Pic raye, de la Louisiane, Buff. PL Enl. (id'-i ( 9 ad.) — Vikill. N. D. xxvi, 90. 



Picus ventre rubro, Catesby, Car. i, 19, pi. 19, f. 2. 



Piats carolinus, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, i, 175H, 113 (based on Catesby, 1. c.) ; ed. 12, i, 177G, 

 174.— WiLS. Am. Oru. i, 1808, 115, pi. 7, fig. 2.— Nutt. Man. i, 1832, 572,— AuD. 

 Oin. Biog.v, 1839, 169, pi. 415; Synop. 1839,183; B. Am. iv, 1842, 270, pi. 270. 

 SOXDEV. CoDsp. Pic. 186(:), 53. 

 Centurus carolinensis, Swains. Clossif. B. ii, 1837. 



Ceniurus carolinus, Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 40; Consp. i, 1850, 119. — Baird, B. N. 

 Am. 1858, 109; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 91.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 469 (S- 

 Texas ; common resident). — Allen, Pr. Essex Inst, iv, 1864, 53 (Massachii. 

 setis; accidental); Bull, M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 30G (Florida); iii, 1872, 180 (Kan- 

 sas).— Coues, Key, 1872, 196; Check List, 1873, no. 306; B. N.-W. 1874, 289.— 

 EiDGW. Bull. Essex Inst. Nov. 1873, 185 (Colorado) ; Field & Forest, June. 

 1877, 209 (Boulder Co. Colorado); Cat. N. A. B. 1880, no. 372 ; Norn. N. A. B, 

 1881, no. 372.— B. B. & E. Hist. N. Am. B. ii, 1874, 554, pi. 52, figs. 1, 4.— 

 Nels. Bull. Essex Inst, viii, 1876, 116, 153 ( n. e. Illinois: rare sum. res. 

 leaving last of Oct.: comm. in migr.). — Mereiam, Trans. Conn. Acad, iv, 

 1877, 65 (accid. in Connecticut). — Brewst. Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, ii, Oct. 

 1877, 108 (do.).— Mearns, ib. July, 1878, 146 (Cornwall, N. Y. Sept. 1870). 

 Zehraiiicus carolinus, Malh. M(5m. Ac. Metz, 1849, 361; Mon. Pic. ii, 1862,234; iv, 



1862, pi. ciii, figs. 7 ( <? ad.) 8 ( 9 ad.). 

 Melanerpes (Centurus) carolinus, Kidgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. Jan. 1874, 378 (Illinois). 



Picus zehar, BoDD. Tabl. P. E. 1783 (ex PL Enl. 602). 



Picus griseus, Vieill. O. A. S. ii, 1807, pi. 116 ( <? ad.). 



Picus cry thrauchen, Wagl. Syst. Av. 1827, no. 38; Isis, 1829, 513. 



Le Pic Carolin, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xi, — , 181. 



Le Pic gris, Vieill. 1. c. 



Pic gris ray6, Vieill. N. D. xxvi, 77. 



Fie raye gais, Vieill. "Diet. pitt. hist. uat. p. 627." 



JRed-beUied Wooilpeclcr, Catesby, Car. i, 1731, 19, et auct. 



Carolina Woodpeclcer, Lath. Synop. i, 1781, 570. 



Le Pic:ebre de la Caroline, ^aj.ttj i 

 Piczebre Carolin, J * . . • 



Rah. — Eastern United States, west to the eastern slope of Eocky 

 Mountains, south to Florida and Texas. Eare in northern States, and 

 apparently wanting in the valley of the Eio Grande. Most numerous 

 in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf States. 



Adult S : Entire pileum and nape bright scarlet, deepest on the crown, 

 the forehead lighter, or more pinkish (sometimes approaching reddish 

 white); rest of the head and neck, with lower parts, pale buff-grayish, 

 lighter on the chin and throat; middle of the abdomen pinkish red, the 

 remainder of the lower parts sometimes tinged with the same, especially 

 on the breast and cheeks ; tibiae and crissum. white, relieved by rather 

 sparse hastate marks of black. Back scapulars and upper part of rump 

 broadly and distinctly barred with black and white, the two colors in 

 about equal proportion, or the black bars rather the wider; wings black, 

 the coverts and secondaries barred with pure white ; primaries tipped 

 with white, narrowly margined with the same beyond their emargina- 



