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G. CENTURUS RADIOL ATUS. 



Picus varius medins jamaicensis, Ray, Syii. av. ISl, no. 11. 



Ficus jamaicensis, Edw. Gleanings, pi. 244 ( ^ ad.). 



Fie vari6 Femelle, clc la Jamaique, Buff. PI. Enl. 597 ( ^ ad.). 



Ficus carolinus, part, Lixx. S. N. i ed. 12, 1703, 175 (quotes, "Ficus varius medius, Sloan 

 jam. 2, p. 299, t. 255. Ficus varius jamaicensis, Briss. av. 4, p. 59. Ficus jamaicen- 

 sis, Edw. av. 5, p. 71, t. 244. " — Not of ed. 10, 1758,113, which is based entirely 

 ou Catesby). 



Picus radiolatus, Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, Ficus, no. 39 (-^ ad. ; Jamaica) ; Isis, 1829, 

 572. 

 Centurus radiolatus, Bonap. Consp. i, 1850, 118 ; Consp. Zygod. 1854, no. 215. — GossE, 

 B. Jam. 1847, 271.— Reich. Handb. 1854,409, no. 961,pl.dclxiii, fig. 440G ( <? 

 ad.).— SCL.r. Z. S. 18G1, 79; Catal. 1862, 343, no. 204G.— March, Proc. Philad. 

 Acad. 18G3, 284.— ScL. & Salv. Nom. Neofcr. 1873, 100 (Jamaica). 

 Zelrapicus radiolatus, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii, 1862, 237 ; iv, pi. civ, figs. 5 ( $ ad. ) 6 ( 9 ad.) 



^ Picus albifrons, Swaixs. Philos. Mag. i, 1827, 439 ( ^ ad.; "Table-lands of Mexico "— 

 error* ).—Wagl. Isis, 1829, 514.— Less. Compl. Buff, ix, 1837, 318. 



Picus larvatus, Temm. PI. Col. livr. 73'=, 1838, in text, sub P. superciliaris. 



Le Pizebre de la Jamaique, Malh. 1. c. 



The Woodpecker of Jamaica, Edwards, 1. c. 



Padiolated Woodpecker, GOSSE, 1. c. 



Le front blanc, Less. 1. c. 



Hah. — Jamaica only. 



Adult $ : Pileum and nape bright scarlet-crimson, darkest ou the 

 crown; remainder of the head, including forehead, lores, and supercili- 

 ary stripe, soiled white, changing quite abruptly to smoky drab next to 

 the red of occijjut and nape, and on the jngulum, the breast, sides, and 

 abdomeu uniform deep olivaceous (slaty iilumbeous beneath the sur- 

 face), and with a deei> golden-ochraceous wash in some examples 5 middle 

 of the abdomen deeply tinged with saiiron-red, the tibiae tinged with 

 the same, and indistinctly barred with grayish dusky and dull whitish ; 

 crissum black, narrowly and rather distantly barred with dingy white. 

 Upper parts black, relieved by very narrow thread-like bars of white, 

 these widest apart on wings ; upper tail-coverts and lower part of rump 

 also black, crossed by broader and more distinct bars of white; tail 

 deep black, the inner webs of middle pair of feathers (sometimes outer 

 ■webs also) marked with narrow white bars. Adnlt 9 : Similar, but 

 crown and upper part of occiput smoky gray, and the white of the an- 

 terior portion of the head more obscured, or dingy. Bill black ; feet 



* "Above blackish, transversely marked -with white lines, beneath olivaceous ; front, 

 chin, and sides of the head white ; crown and neck red. 



" Table land ; rare. 



" Total length, 10^; bill, If^; wings, 5; tail, 4." 



This bird has usually been referred to one or another of the forms of C. aiirifrons. 

 Judging from the above description, however, and especially by Bonaiiarte's comments 

 in P. Z. S. 1837, p. 116, it seems more probable that the present species was the one Swain- 

 son had in view, there being at least one other AVest Indian bird in the same collection 

 erroneously ascribed a Mexican habitat (Tyrannula iarhirostris, also from Jamaica). 



