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6. OENTUKUS EADIOLATUS. 



Ficus variiis medtiis jamaiccnsis, Ray, Syu. av. 181, no. 11. 



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



Fie varie Fcmelle, de la Jamaiqiie, Buff. PI. Enl. 597 ( ^ ad.). 



Ficus car olinus, part, Lixx. S. N. i ed. 12, 1766, 175 (quotes, '^Ficiis variiis medius, Sloan 

 jam. 2, x>. 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, whicli is based entirely 

 on Catesby). 



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

 572. 

 C^nturus radiolatus, Boxap. Consp. i, 1850,118; Cousp. Zygod. 1854, no. 215. — GOSSE, 

 B. Jam. 1847, 271.— Reich. Handb. 1854,409, no. 961,pl.dclxiii, fig. 4406 ( ^ 

 ad.).— SCL. P. Z. S. 1861, 79 ; Catal. 1862, 343, no. 2046.— March, Proc. Pliilad. 

 Acad. 1863, 284.— Scl. & Salv. Norn. Neotr. 1873, 100 (Jamaica). 

 Zebrapicus radiolatus, Malh. Men. Pic. ii, 1862, 237 ; iv, pi. civ, figs. 5 ( <^ ad. ) 6 ( $ ad. ) 



? Ficus albifrons, Swains. Philos. Mag. i, 1827,439 ( ^ ad. ; "Table-lands of Mexico "— 

 error*).- Wagl. Isis, 1829, 514.— Less. Compl. Bufi". ix, 1837,318. 



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



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



The Woodpeclcer of Jamaica, Edwards, 1. c. 



Eadiolaied Woodpeclcer, Gosse, 1. c. 



Le front blanc, Less. 1. c. 



Hah. — Jamaica only. 



Adult $ : Pileum and nape bright scarlet-crimson, darkest on tlie 

 crown 5 remainder of the head, including forehead, lores, and supercili- 

 ary stripe, soiled white, changing quite abrui^tly to smoky drab next to 

 the red of occiput and nape, and on the jugulum, the breast, sides, and 

 abdomen nniform deep olivaceous (slaty plumbeous beneath the sur- 

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

 of the abdomen deeply tinged with saffron-red, the tibioe 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 ; upi^er 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 diugy. Bill black; feet 



* "Above blackisb, 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. aurifrons. 

 Judging from the above description, however, and especially by Bonaparte'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 West Indian bird in the same collection 

 erroneously ascribed a Mexican habitat {T'jrannnla barhirostris, also from Jamaica). 



