I886.J Cory on the Birch of the West Indies. '^^Q 



loo (1S73).— RiDGw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. IV, p. in (iSSi).— A. & 

 E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (18S1). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. 

 p. 20 (1885). 

 ZebnificHs radiolatus Malh. Mon. Pic. II. p. 237 (1S62). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead and tliroat dull white; crown bright red; 

 breast smoke gray, becoming yellowish-olive on the wnderparts ; a 

 faint reddish tinge near the vent, sometimes lacking; back black, 

 the feathers delicately barred with dull white; rump black, barred 

 with white ; tail black, the inner webs of the two central feathers 

 delicately barred with white; wings black, showing numerous dot- 

 tings of white on the secondaries and the basal portions of the outer 

 webs of some of the primaries. 



Female: — Forehead white; top of the iiead smokv-brovvn ; a band 

 of red at the base of the skull ; otherwise similar to the male. 

 Length, 10.50; wing, 5; tail, 3.50; tarsus, .90; bill, 1.25. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Centurus superciliaris (Temm.). 



P/CHS siipercilia)-isTE.MM. PI. Col. IV, p. 433 (1S20-39). — Cuv. Reg. An. 



p. 451 (1S29). — Wagl. Isis, 1S29, p. 515. — Less. Traite d"Orn. p. 227 



(i83i).-Thiene. J. f. O. 1857, P- 1.S3- 

 Colaptes superciliaris YiG. Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 445 (1827). — D'Orb. in 



La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 146 ^^IS4o). 

 Colapfes superciliosiis Gr.vy'. Gen. Bds. II, p. 446 (1844-49). 

 Centurus superciliaris Bp. Consp. I, p. 118 (1850). — Reich. Handb. p. 



40S (1854). — GuNDL. J. f. O. 1856, p. 103; ib. 1874, p. 152. — Brewer, 



Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 307 (i86o).— Scl. Cat. Am. Bds. 



p. 342 (1862).— Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. loi (1873). — 



RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. IV, p. ii;; (1S81).— Cory, List Bds. W- 



I. p. 20 (1S85). 

 Zebrapicus superciliaris Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, p. 361. 



Sp. Ch.\r. Male: — Forehead white, showing a faint tinge of orange red at 

 base of the upper mandible; crown deep red, the color extending to 

 the nape; a patch of black over and back of the eye; rest of head 

 and throat dull grayish white; breast yellowish olive, becoming 

 distinctly yellowish on the belly; a patch of deep red on the middle 

 of the belly; back and wings heavily banded with black and white, 

 showing a faint yellowish tinge on the back ; primaries dark brown, 

 narrowly tipped with white on the fifth and sixth ; the two central 

 tail-feathers heavily banded with black and white ; the outer tail- 

 feathers banded with black and white near the tip; rest of tail- 

 feathers faintly tipped with white ; bill black: feet black. 



Female: — Similar to the male, but having top of the head white 



