270 Cory on a Netv Woodpecker. [J"ly 



Anotlicr mule (No. 63,621, Smitlis. Inst.), moulting, but in neiirly fresh 

 pliiinage, dilVers from the above in being mucii less heavily barred with 

 black on the back and scapulars, and of a still deeper shade of tawn3' 

 ochraceous below. 



Description of female type. — Crown bluish slate, streaked with chestnut 

 rufous on the vertex. Above chestnut rufous, sparingly barred with 

 plumbeous black, the bars becoming obsolete on the rump, leaving 

 tlie upper tail coverts and hinder part of rump plain ; tail incompletely 

 barred with black, the outer feathers only spotted on their inner webs. 

 Underparts pale ochraceous buff, deepening to vinaceous cinnamon on 

 the lireast; longitudinal markings below light cinnamon, nearly obsolete. 



Meusurenients. — Wing, 200,0; tail, 152.0; chord of culmen, 13.0; width 

 of bill at base, 10.5; tarsus, 39.0; middle toe, 24.5 mm. 



DESCRIPTION OF AN APPARENTLY NEW CEN- 



TURUS FROM GREAT BAHAMA ISLAND, 



BAHAMAS. 



BY CHARLES B. CORY. 



A COLLECTION ofsome eight hundred birds hitely received from 

 Great Bahama Island contained eight specimens of an apparently 

 undescribed Centiirus which I propose to call 



Centurus bahamensis, sp. nov. 



Type No. 19,578, Coll. C B. Cory, Boston, Great Bahama Island, De- 

 cember 26, 1891. — Adult male similar to C. blakei., in having the entire 

 underparts strongly tinged with olive green; the back is banded with 

 black and yellowish green, not black and white as in blakei. The feathers 

 on the flanks show a slightly reddish tinge; the forehead is dusky white; 

 and the red at the base of the bill is somewhat darker than in C. blakei. 

 Length, 9.50 inches ; wing, 5.25 ; tail, 4.00; bill, 1.20; tarsus, .85. 



The female has the forehead darker than the female of C blakei, and 

 has the under parts tinged with olive green as in the male. 



