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4 (?). CENTUEUS TEERICOLOR. 



-Centurus ierricohr, Bkklepscii, Ibis, Jan. 1880, 113 (" Orinoco district or Trinidad"). 



-"Affinis C. iricoJori (ex Bogota), sed major, et rostro lougiore, latiore ; capitis lateribus, 

 gula et aljdomiue toto obscurfi brunueo-olivaceis ; ventre medio obscur^ rubro 

 (iiec flavo-mbro) ; tectricibns caudte superioribus inferioribusque nigro regu- 

 laritur fasciatis, primo viso distinguendus. Long, alie 108, canduo 60, rostri 

 24, tarsi 19." 



Judging from tlie above description, tbis 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- 

 sibly a local race of C. tricolor. 



5. CENTUEUS AUEIFEONb. 



Ficus aurifrom, Wagl. Isis, 1829, 129, 512 ( i ad. ; Mexico).— Light. Nomcncl. 1854, 



76. — SuNDEV. Consp. Pic. 1866, 53. 

 CenUinis aurifrons, Gray, Gen. B. ii, 1849, 442.— Bonap. Consp. i, 1850, 119.— Cabax. 



J. f. O. 1862, 323.— Cooper Orn. 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, ligs. 3 and 6.— Sennett, Bull. U. S. Gcol. & 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 : Nom. N. A. B. 1881, no. 373. 

 Zebrapicus aurifrons, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii, 1862, 240 ; iv, pi. 104, figs. 1-3 ( ^ and 9 



ad., S juv.). 

 Centurus suhelegans, Bonap. P. Z. S. Nov. 14, 1837, 109 ( ^ ad. ; Mexico) ; Consp. 1, 



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

 Centurus flaviventris, Swains. An. in Meuag. 1838, 354 (bab. ignot. ; i ad.).— SCL. P. 



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



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



X. c. 1859, 18.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 469 (R. Grande, n. c. to Guadalupe R. ; 



resid.). 

 Picus ornatus, Less. Mag. Zool. 1839, 102 ( <? ad.).— Weigm. Arch. fiirNaturg. 1841, 99. 



Centurus ornatus, Reich. Handb. 1854, 410, pi. 664, figs. 4409-'10. 

 " Centurus elegans", Lawr. (nee Sw^ains.) Ann. Lye. N. Y. v. Apr. 28, 1851, 116(Texas). 

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

 TeUow-lellied Woodpecker, Baird, 1. c. et Auct. 

 Golden-fronted Woodpecker, CouES, 1. c. 

 Le PiczeJ}re a front d^orl-^^^^^^ Y^ ^ 

 Fic-Zebre a Front d^or S 



E(ib. — Table-lands of Mexico, north to the Guadalupe Eiver in South- 

 ern Texas. 



Adnlt <?: 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 ash, as are also the lower 

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

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

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



