FAMILY PICIDAK 561 



CENTURUS RUBRICAPILLUS SEDUCTUS (Bangs) 



MaJanerpcs (sic) seductus Bangs, Auk, vol. 18, January 1901, p. 26. (Isla del 

 Rey, Archipielago de las Perlas, Panama.) 



Characters. — Breast darker, browner, chin and upper throat duller 

 in color ; smaller. 



Measurements. — Males (13 from the Archipielago de las Perlas), 

 wing 99.8-106.6 (103.3), tail 47.4-51.0 (49.3, average of 6), culmen 

 from base 25.2-28.1 (26.5), tarsus 18.6-21.7 (20.1) mm. 



Females (13 from the Archipielago de la Perlas), wing 97.7-104.0 

 (101.3), tail 46.2-52.8 (49.2, average of 7), culmen from base 21.8- 

 24.7 (23.2), tarsus 17.4-20.0 (18.7) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in the Archipielago de las Perlas, re- 

 corded from islas Bayoneta, Vivienda, Viveros, del Rey, Canas and 

 Santelmo. It is interesting to note that this bird was not found 

 on Isla Pedro Gonzalez in 1944, or on Isla San Jose in 1944 and 1946, 

 both situated to the southwest of Isla del Rey. 



These woodpeckers were fairly common in trees standing in clear- 

 ings in areas that were farmed. In the uninhabited islands, they 

 ranged in forest in the high tree crown. Those taken on Isla Santelmo 

 were definitely smaller than others, but showed no other differences. 



It has seemed strange that woodpeckers of this type were not seen 

 on Isla Taboga and the smaller islands nearby. 



CENTURUS PUCHERANI PUCHERANI (Malherbe) : 

 Black-cheeked Woodpecker, Carpintero Mejillinegro 



Zebrapicus Pucherani Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 1, November 

 1849, p. 542. (Colombia.) 



Medium size; breast gray, sides heavily barred with black and 

 white ; back barred with white ; nape red. 



Description. — Length 170-200 mm. This species and C. chrys- 

 auchen differ structurally from others of the genus found in Panama 

 in having the bare area around the eye more extensive. Adult male, 

 forehead light yellow ; crown and nape bright red ; back, wings, and 

 tail black, the back barred rather narrowly with white ; wings barred 

 or spotted with white, these markings in some including the wing 

 coverts ; central rectrices usually, and outer pair sometimes, barred 

 with white ; rump and upper tail coverts white ; spot behind eye, space 

 below, and malar region white; rest of side of head black; chin and 

 throat pale grayish white ; f oreneck and upper breast olive-drab ; lower 

 breast, sides, flanks, and under tail coverts pale dull yellow, or white, 



