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Centurus snperGiUans, Boxap. Cousp. i, 1830, 118 ; Consp. Zygod. 1854, no. 214. — 

 Reich. Handb. 1854, 408, pi. 632, figs. 4400 (^ ad.) 4401 (albiuotic 5 ad.).— 

 GUNDL. J. f. O. 1856, 103 ; Repert. i, 1863, 294.— ScL. Catal. 1862, 342, uo. 2042 

 (Cuba).— SCL. & Salv. Norn. Neotr. 1873, 101 (Cuba). 

 Zebrapicm snpercUiaris, Malii. Mem. Ac. Metz, 1848-9, 361 ; Mon. Pic. ii, 1832, 223 ; 

 iv, 1862, pi. 102, figs. 1{S ad.), 2( 9 ad.), 3 ( 9 ad., alb.). 



"Piciis sahocalaris, Less, Discr. d'Ois. rdc. ddcouv. 1847, p. 205, uo. 33, lemale". {Mal- 

 herhe.) 



Pic soiux'tl noir, Tkmm. 1. c. 



Pic a sourcih uoirs, Less. 1. c. 



Colapte a sourcih noirs, D'Orb. 1. c. 



Le Pic a pJaqm noire, Less. Descr. d'Ois. rec. dec. 



Carpintero jabado ) y 



Carpintero co.iimtin ) 



Le Piczchrc sonrcil noir on supcrciliare \ ^r ..,,, n 



Pic-zehre siiperciliare j 



Hah.— Cnha. 



Adult (? : Crown, occiput, and nape bright scarlet-crimson, darker an- 

 teriorly ; frontal feathers, on each side of the base of the culmeu, reddish 

 (usually deeply red, occasionally merely stained with this color) ; a large 

 longitudinal patch of black on each side of the crimson crown, the lower 

 edge bordering the bare orbital space, and extending from the anterior 

 angle of the eye back as far as the occiput ; remainder of the head dull 

 whitish, including a distinct and usually broad band across the fore- 

 head ; white purest on auriculars and forehead, more tinged with light 

 buffy-gray on the throat, this changing gradually to a deeper shade of 

 the same on jugulum, the breast, sides, and abdomen deeply bufty 

 drab, tinged with golden buff posteriorly ; middle of the abdomen bright 

 red; flanks, tibiiie, anal region, and crissum varied with V-shaped marks 

 of black. Back, scapulars, and wings broadly barred with black and 

 white, the dorsal region strongly washed with buff yellow ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts white, often tinged with pink and buff yellow, the 

 former with transverse bars, the latter with V-shaped marks of black ; 

 tail black, the inner webs of the intermedko white, with broad, rather 

 oblique, bars of black, the outerwebs with a longitudinal stripe of white, 

 narrow and pointed posteriorly, often barred with black anteriorly ; lat- 

 eral pair of rectrices marked with broad bars, or transverse spots, of 

 white, not touching the shaft except the terminal and (rarely) the sub- 

 terminal spots ; inner webs with one or two broad bars of white near the 

 end. Primaries black, the outer webs blotched with white near the 

 base. Adult 9 : Similar to the S , but anterior part of the crown white, 

 like the forehead, the occiput and posterior part of the crown black, this 

 confluent with the black superciliary patches : bill blackish ; feet oliva- 

 ceous dusky. Wing, 5.40-6.00 ; tail, 4.50-4.80 ; culmen, 4.30-1.05 -, tar- 

 sus, 1.00-1.10. 



The unique characters of this very distinct species consist in the large 

 size (largest in the genus), superciliary black patches combined with 



