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variable character, as is also the width of the median black throat-band. 

 Females would seem on an average to have the outer rectrices more 

 decidedly barred than males. Two females in juvenal dress, taken on 

 May 3 and June 28 respectively, have the feathers of the pileum (except 

 anteriorly) tipped with red, as in the adult male. The crimson patch 

 on the breast is lacking, and the general coloration duller, but other- 

 wise they are like adults. 



Although by no means so abundant as the other native woodpecker, 

 the present species is nevertheless a common bird, preferring the depths 

 of the jungle, however, to the palm-groves. Its call-note is not unlike 

 that of the Yellow-bellied species. It is a much less noisy bird 

 than the Centuriis, and thus is more apt to escape observation. The 

 natives accuse it of injuring fruit in the same manner as the other 

 species, but it is very doubtful if the charge is justified, since it is not 

 accustomed to frequent the orange and grape-fruit groves to any great 

 extent. Two nests were discovered, one at Los Indios, the other at 

 Siguanea. Both were excavated in mangroves, and contained young 

 at the time (April and May). Mr. Read, however, says that it usually 

 nests in the pines at the very edge of the jungle. 



91. Centurus superciliaris murceus Bangs. Isle of Pines Wood- 

 pecker. 



Colaples superciliaris (not Picus superciliaris Temminck) Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. 



Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, ^c?e Gundlach). 

 Centurus superciliaris Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 141 (I. of Pines). — Read, 



Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102 (I. of Pines; syn.); XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). 



— Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Nov. 29, 1913 (descr.; habits). 

 Melanerpes superciliaris Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 206 (San 



Juan, Jucaro, Nueva Gerona, and Los Almacigos; plum.; meas. ; crit.). 

 "Red-bellied Woodpecker" Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines). 

 "Cuban Red-bellied Woodpecker" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 445 



(I. of Pines). — Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 84 (McKinley to Nueva Gerona); 



XXVIII, 1911, 3 (McKinley and Santa Barbara Mountain), 5 (McKinley; 



nesting), 6, 10 (Nuevas River), 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 123 (Nuevas 



River), 125, 127 (Santa Barbara), 130 (I. of Pines), 168 (Los Indios). 

 Centurus superciliaris murceus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXII, 1910, 



173 (San Juan; orig. descr.; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.; meas.). — 



Read, Bird-Lore, XV, 1913, 45 (Santa Barbara). -^Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 61 (Nueva Gerona, Santa Fe (?), San Juan, Jucaro, and 



Los Almacigos, ex Bangs & Zappey; diag.). 



Thirty-six specimens: Nueva Gerona, Los Indios, and Santa Rosalia 

 Lagoon. 



