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Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1895, 152 (Wabash, Indiana, abundant resident). — 

 Lawrence (R. B.), Auk, xiii, 1896, 82 (Flushing, Babylon, and Raynor 

 South, Long Island; 3 specs.). — Obbeholsbr, Bull. Ohio Agric. Exp. Sta., 

 tech. ser., i, 1896, 290 (Wayne Co., n. e. Ohio, common resident). — Hadlbt, 

 Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1897, 187 (Richmond, Wayne Co., Indiana, resident). — 

 CooKK, Bull. Col. Agric. Coll., no. 37, 1897, 84 (Greeley, etc., Colorado; very 

 rare); no. 56, 1900, 208 (Limon, Colorado, 1 spec, May, 1899). — ^Jones, 

 Wilson Bull., no. 16, 1897, 61 (OberUn, Ohio; increasing); no. 22, 1898, 62 

 (Lorain Co., Ohio; increasing). — Betek, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 

 (1900), 103 (Louisiana, resident).— Fishee (W. H.), Auk, xx, 1903, 305 

 (Harford Co., Maryland, breeding). 



[Melanerpes] caroKnus Shaepb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211. 



C[entunis] carolinenm Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 310. 



Centurus carolinenm Abbott, Am. Nat., iv, 1870, 538 (New Jersey). — Beck- 

 ' HAM, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 164 (Bayou Sara, Louisiana). — Seton, 

 Auk, ii, 1885, 335 (Toronto, Ontario). 



Picus zebra Boddaeht, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 43 (based on Epeiche ou Pic rayi de 

 laLouidane Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 692). 



Picus carolinus var. j-. Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 231. 



Piciis griseus Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 62, pi. 116 (Pennsylvania, New 

 Jersey, etc.). — Bonnatehee and Vieillot, Enc. M^th., iii, 1823, 1308. 



P[yyus] erythroMchen Waqler, Syst. Av., 1827, Picus, sp. 38 (new name for Picus 

 carolinus linnseuB); Isis, 1829, 513. 



Picus querulus (not of Wilson) Hatmond, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 293 

 (s. e. Indiana). 



CENTURUS SUPERCILIARIS SUPERCILIARIS (Temminck). 



STTPEKCILIARY WOODPECKEK. 



Adult male. — Crown, occiput, nape, and hindneck bright crimson 

 or carmine, rather lighter on the hindneck; back and scapulars 

 broadly barred with black and pale buffy yellowish, the bars of the 

 latter rather narrower than the black interspaces; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts white, barred with black, the black markings more spot- 

 like, more or less cordate, on rump, usually V- or U-shaped on longer 

 upper tail-coverts; tail black, the middle pair of rectrices broadly 

 barred with white (white bars sometimes broader than the white 

 interspaces), the lateral rectrices more narrowly barred with white, 

 at least on outer web and terminal portion of iimer web; wings black, 

 the coverts and secondaries broadly barred with white (the white bars 

 sometimes exceeding the black interspaces in width, either on coverts 

 or secondaries), the basal portion of primaries spotted or otherwise 

 marked with white; forehead and anterior portion of superciHary 

 region duU grayish white or brownish white, the latero-frontal or 

 post-nasal region red; a large, elongated supra-auricular spot or patch 

 of black, extending anteriorly around upper portion of eye to the 

 anterior angle of the latter; loral and suborbital regions white, passing 

 into duller white or very pale grayish buffy on auricular and malar 

 regions, the chia and upper throat similar but sUghtly darker; under 

 parts mostly plain light buffy grayish brown to dull brownish buffy. 



