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Centurus superdlians Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., 1856, 103 (habits; crit.). — Gtjnd- 

 LACH, Joum. fur Om., 1874, 152 (habita); Om, Cubana, ed. 1895, 141.— 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 186b, 307.— Sclateb, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 342.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 115 (monogr.).— Cobt, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 379; Birds West Ind., 1889, 174.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H., iv, 1892, 301 (near Trinidad, s. Cuba). 



C[en,turus\ superdliaris Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinee, 1854, 408, 

 pi. 662, figs. 4400-4401.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 98 

 (diagnosis). 



C[enfunw] superdliaris aupereiliaris Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, Dec. 29, 

 1910. 173. in text. 



]\{[elanerpesl superdliaris Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 292. , 



Melanerpes superdliaris Hahgitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 167. — Coey, 

 Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 128.— Menegaux, Rev. Franf. d'Om., 

 no. 2, 1909, 23 (Gxiantanamo, e. Cuba). 



[Melanerpes] superdliaris Shaepb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 210. 



C[olaptes] superdliosus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 446. 



' Picus subocularis Lbss[on], Descr. d'Ois. r^c. d^couv., 1847, p. 205, no. 33, 

 le male" (Malherbe). 



CENTDRUS SUPERCILIARIS MURCEUS Bangs. 



ISLE OF PINES WOODPECKER. 



Similar to C. s. superdliaris but decidedly smaller, and under parts 

 of body paler and decidedly less yellowish. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 246-264 (255.6); wing, 135.5-143 

 (138.4); tail, 92-97 (94.5); culmen, 36-40.5 (38.2); tarsus, 23-25.5 

 (24.4); outer anterior toe, 20-21.5 (20.8). <» 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 242-259 (250); wing, 131.5-139.5 

 (135.5); tail, 85.5-99 (92.3); culmen, 34-35 (34.5); tarsus, 24-25 

 (24.5); outer anterior toe, 19-20.5 (19.8).* 



Isle of Pines, Cuba (Nueya Gerona; Santa F6; San Juan; Jdcaro; 

 Almacigos). 



Melanerpes superdliaris (not Picus superdliaris Temminck) Bangs and Zappey, 



Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 206 (Isle of Pines; crit.). 

 Centurus superdliaris murceus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, Dec. 29, 1910, 



173 (San Juan, Isle of Pines; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



CENTURUS BLAKEI BLAKEI Ridgway. 

 BLAKE'S WOODPECKER. 



Similar to C. supercUiaris but much smaller; black superciliary 

 area much smaller; postnasal region (frontal antise) much paler red; 

 rectrices with much less white; red of abdomen lighter and more 

 restricted, and color of breast, etc., more grayish Gess yellowish). 

 Similar also to G. nyearms but postnasal spots smaller and much 

 less deeply red, forehead less purely white, white bars on upper parts 



» Six specimens. 6 Two specimens. 



