104 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



4 a). CENTUEUS TEEEICOLOR. 



Centiints terricolor, Beklepscii, Ibis, Jan. 1880, 113 (" Orinoco district or Triuidad"). 



" Affiuis C. trlcolori (ex Dogotu), sed major, et rosfcro lougiore, latiore ; caj)iti8 lateribus, 

 gala et abdomiDc toto obscure brimneo-olivaceis ; ventre medio obscurti rubro 

 (uec ihiTo-rubro) ; tectricibus caudse superioribus iuferioribusque uigro regn- 

 laritur fasciatis, primo viso distiugueudus. Loug. alte 108, caudio 60, rostri 

 24, tarsi 19." 



Judging from the above description, tliis bird closely resembles C. 

 tricolor, but is much darker colored, and with the upper tail-coverts 

 much more distinctly and regularly barred than in that form. It is pos- 

 siblj^ a local race of C. tricolor. 



5. CENTUEUS AUEIFEONfe. 



Ficus annfrouf^, Wagl. Isis, 1829, 129, 512 ( ^ ad. ; Mexico).— Light. Noniencl. 1854, 



7(5. — SuxDEV. Cousp. Pic. 1866, 53. 

 Ceniiirus anrijrons, Ghay, Geu. B. ii, 1849, 442. — Bonap. Cousp. i, 1850, 119. — Cabax. 



J. f. O. 1862, 323.— Cooper Orii. Cal. i, 1870, 399 (Texas).--CouES, Key, 



1872, 196, Check List, 1873, no. 307.— B. B. & E., Hist. N. Am. B. ii, 1874, 



577, pi. lii, tigs. 3 aud6.— Sexxett, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. Terr, iv, 



no. 1, 1878, 39 (Hidalgo and Brownsville, Texas; abt.).— Merrill, Pr, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. i, 1878, 151 (Ft. Brown, Texas, abt.).— Ridgw. Cat. N. Am. B. 



1880, no. 373 : Norn. N. A. B. 1881, no. 373. 

 Zebrapicus aurij'rons, Malii. Mon. Pic. ii, 1862, 240 ; iv, pi. 104, figs. 1-3 ( ^ and 9 



ad., $ juv.). 

 Centuruft snhcJcjans, Boxap. P. Z. S. Nov. 14, 1837, 109 ( $ ad. ; Mexico) ; Consp. i, 



1850, 119; Notes Delatr. 1854, 85; Consp. Zygod. 1854, no. 220 (excl. syn.). 

 Centurusjlaviveiifris, SwAixs. An. in Meuag. 1838, 354 (bab. ignot. ; <? ad.). — ScL. P. 



Z. S. 1857, 8.— Baiiid, B. N. Am. 1858, 110; ed. 1860, pi. 42; Cat. N. Am. B. 



1859, no. 92; Mex. Bound. Surv. ii, 1859, 5, pi. 4.— Heermax, Pacific R. R. Rep. 



X. c. 18.59, 18.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 469 (R. Grande, n. e. to Guadalupe R. ; 



resid.). 

 PicHS ornatus, Less. Mag. Zool. 1839, 102 ( ^ ad.).— Weigm. Arch, fiir Naturg. 1841, 99. 



Venturas ornatus, Reich. Ilandb. 1854, 410, pi. 664, figs. 4409-'10. 

 " Centurus elegans'% Lawr. (nee Swains.) Ann. Lye. N. Y. v. Apr. 28, 1851, 116(Texas). 

 " Centurus Santa-Cruzi," Lawr. (nee Boxap.) Ann. Lye. N. Y. v, 1851, 123 (W. Texas). 

 Yellow-hcJUed Woodpecker, Baird. 1. c. et AucT. 

 (r olden- fronted JVoodprcker, Coues, 1. c, 

 Le Piczehre d front d^or }tl, ^^ ,, 



„,,,,,' / iUALII. ll. C. 



Fic-Zebre a Lront dor ) 



Hah. — Table-lands of Mexico, north to the Guadalupe Eiver in South- 

 ern Texas. 



Adnlt i: Frontlet yolk-yellow; nape, bright orange-yellow, varying 

 to orange-red in some specimens ; occiput (usually) and sides of the 

 crown ash-gray ; middle of the crown covered by a patch (usually iso- 

 lated) of bright crimson-scarlet ; rest of the head, including a band across 

 the forehead, dingy ashy white, or pale dingy a.^h, as are also the lower 

 parts back to the flanks and abdomen ; middle of the abdomen more or 

 less deeply tinged with yolk-yellow ; tibice and crissum grayish white, 

 marked with irregular broad V-shaped bars of black. Back, scapulars, 



