2^8 Cory 'w ///e Birds of tJic West Indies. [.T"'y 



Genus Centurus Swains. 

 Ccnturus Swaixson. Class. Birds. II, p. 310, 1837. 



Centurus striatus (Mull.). 



PicHS dominiccnsis. striiitiis. "Briss. Orn. IV, p. 65, pi. 4. fig. 2 (1760) 



((? ad)." 

 PicHs dominiccnsis "Briss. t. c. pi. 3. fig. 2 ($ ad)."' 

 Le Pic 7-aye dc St. Dominique "Briss. Orn. IV, p. 6v pi. 4, fig, i (1760) 



{$ ad). 

 Picus striatus Mi'LL. Svst. Nat. Suppl. (1766). — Gmel. Svst. Nat. I, p. 



427 (17SS).— Cuv. Reg. An. I. p. 451 (1S29).— Bryant, Pr. Bost. 



Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 96 (1S66). 

 Centurus striatus Gray, Can. Bds. II, p. 442 (1S44-49). — ^f- Consp. I, p. 



119 (1850). — SALLi:, p. Z. S. 1S57, p. 234. — ScL. (S: Salv. Nom. 



Avium Neotr. p. 100 ( 1S73). — Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. IV, p. 



117 (1S81).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 154 (18S1) ; ib. 



Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. iii (1SS5) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 20 



(1SS5).— Tristram, Ibis, 1SS4. p. 168. 

 Zcbra/icus striatus Malu. Mon. Pic II, p. 231 (1S62). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Underparts yellowish green, showing a tinge of 

 brownish olive on the breast, and gray on the throat; forehead and 

 sides of the head gray ; a patch of bright crimson red extending from 

 the forehead to the nape, covering nearly the entire top of the head : 

 rump crim'^on red : back alternately banded with black and yellow- 

 ish green: upper surface of wings having tiie appearance of the 

 back, except that they are alternately lianded with black and yellow- 

 upper surface of tail dark brown ; bill and feet dark slate color. 



Female: — Top of head black ; the nape showing bright crimson 

 red. which encroaches slightly upon the back of the head: rest as in 

 the male. 



Length, 9; wing. 4.60; tail. 3.60; tarsus. .90: bill. 1.20. 

 H.MUTAT. Haiti and San Dominsfo. 



Centurus radiolatus (Wagl.). 



Picus varius medius Jamaicensis Ray', Syn. Av. p. 181, No. 11. 



Picus jamaicefisis Et>\v. Gleanings, PI. 244 ($ ad.). 



Pic varie Fondle de la Jamaique Buff. PI. Enl. p. 597 (J ad.). 



Picus carolinus, part. Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 175 (1766). 



Picus radiolatus Wagl. Syst. Av. No. 59 (1S27) ; ib. Isis, 1S29, p. 572. 



Centurus radiolatus GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 271 (1S47). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 



iiS (1S50).— Reich. Handb. p. 409 (1S54).— Scl. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 



343 (1S62).— Albrecht. J. f. O. 1862, p. 203.— jSIarch, Pr. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 2S4.— Scl. c^ Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 



