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dusky. Young 9 : Similar to the adult, but with red feathers on the 

 middle of the crowu. Wiug, 5.00-5.40 ; tail, 3.70-4.30 ; culmen, 1.30- 

 1.45. 



The ouly species bearing any resemblance to the present one is C. 

 santacruzi, which, however, besides being very much smaller, has the 

 upper tail-coverts and lower rump immaculate white, the frontlet golden- 

 yellow or orange, the lower parts much ];)aler, and the white bars of the 

 upper surface much broader. AVitli the exception of G. superciliaris (of 

 Cuba), it is the largest member of the genus, and in the decided pre- 

 dominance of black on the rump and lower tail-coverts is entirely 

 peculiar. 



7. CENTURUS UROPYGIALIS. 



Ceninras uropnoiaJis, Baird, Proc. Pliilatl. Acad, vii, June, 1854, 120 (Bill Williams' 

 River, Arizona) ; B. N. Am. 1858, 111 ; ed. 1860, pi. .36 ; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, 

 no. 93.— Reich. Handb. 1854, 310.— Caban., J. f. O. 1862, 330 (northern Mex- 

 ico).— Kexxerly, Pacific R. R. Rep. x, b. 1859, pi. 36.— Heerm. lb. x, c. 1859, 

 17. — Suxdevall, Consp. Pic. 1866, 54. — Coues, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1866, 

 57 (S. Arizona) ; Key, 1872, 196 ; Check List, 1873, no. 308.— Cooper, Orn. 

 Cal. i, 1870, .399 (Ft. Mojave).— B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. ii, 1874, 5.58, pi. 

 lii, tigs. 2 and 3. — RiDGW. Cat. N. Am. B. 1880, no. 374; NomencL N. Am. B. 

 1881, no. 374. 



Centurus snlfureiccnlcr, Reich. Handb. Oct. 1854, 410, pi. dclxiv, figs. 4411-12 ( ^ & 

 9 ad.). 



Zebrapicus kmqni, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii, 1862, 245 ; iv, 1802, pi. cvi, figs. 4, o {^ and 

 9 ad.).* 



" Centurus hypoiwUus", Puch. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, 103 (nee Light., cxWagl.). 



Le Pkzehre de Kaup, Malh. 1. c. 



Gila JVoodpechcr, Baird, 1. c. 



Sal). — Western Mexico, extending into Arizona (as far as the Gila 

 Valley), southeastern California, and western New Mexico; Lower 

 California. 



Adult $ : Head, neck, and lower parts soft, rather light smoky drab, 

 usually deepest on the nape and ijaler on the forehead; middle of the ab- 

 domen pale yolk-yellow, in some specimens inclining to buff; a patch of 

 scarlet-crimson on the middle of the crown; tibiae and crissum white, 

 broadly barred with black. Back and. scapulars broadly and regularly 

 barred with black and white, in about equal proportion ; wings black, 

 the coverts and secondaries broadly and sharply barred with pure 

 white ; primaries tipped with white, largely blotched with the same near 

 the base, the longer quills narrowly edged with white beyond their 

 emarginations ; rumi) and upper tail-coverts white, regularly barred 

 with black ; tail black, the inner webs of the intermedicv white, broadly 

 barred with black, the outer webs with a stripe of white extending the 



* Malherbe claims (Mon. Pic. ii, p. 245, foot-note) 1853 as the date of his specific 

 name "kaupii", on the ground that Bonaparte instituted the name " en effet" by- 

 dedicating it, in the Revue et Marjazin de Zoologie for that year, to " au savant directeur 

 de Mus6e de Darmstadt". Inasmuch, however, as not even Dr. Kaup's name was given 

 in the passage quoted as evidence, it will readily appear that Professor Baird's specific 

 term uropygiall's was really the first proposed. 



