BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 97 



[Centurus] uropygialis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 196, part (Cape San 

 Lucas). 



C[entunis] uropygialis Ridqwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 98, part. — 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 488, part (Cape San Lucas). 



Melanerpes uropygialis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, no. 23, Sept. 2, 

 1885, 355, part. — ^American Obnithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 411, part (Lower California). — ^Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 

 ser. 2, 1889, 287 (Cape district and Santa Margarita I., Lower California). — 

 ^ Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 137 (Cape San Lucas; La 



Paz). — Haegitt, Cat. BirdsBrit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 182, part (La Paz, San Jos6 

 del Cabo, and Cape San Lucas, Lower California). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 423, part (Lower California). — Brewstek, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 107 (Cape San Lucas district; description). 



Mlelanerpes] uropygialis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294, part. 



[Melanerpes] uropygialis Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 212, part. 



Centurus uropygialis hrewsteri Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 

 1911, 32 (Santiago, s. Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



CENTURUS RADIOLATUS (Wagler). 



JAMAICAN WOODPECKER. 



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

 or carmine; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, taU, and wings 

 black, the back, scapulars, and wings (except primaries) very nar- 

 rowly barred with white or whitish, the lower rump and upper tail- 

 coverts more broadly barred with white, the inner web of middle 

 pair of rectrices also with a few narrow bars of the same; forehead 

 and lores pale buffy brownish or dull buffy whitish, passing into 

 white on posterior portion of loral region, superciUary region (except 

 posteriorly), suborbital and malar regions, chin, and throat; upper 

 posterior portion of superciliary region, post-auricular region, and 

 foreneck light grayish brown (nearly broccoli brown), this passing 

 into deep yellowish oUve on chest, breast, and sides; abdomen and 

 flanks barred with dusky and pale yellowish olive, the first strongly 

 suffused with saffron yellow to vermiMon or poppy red, or nearly 

 uniformly yellow or red; thighs, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 

 coverts black, barred with white; bill dull black; legs and feet dusky 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 250-278 (261); wing, 126-140 

 (134.4); tail, 81-94 (87.7); culmen, 32.5-38.5 (35.5); tarsus, 23.5- 

 26.5 (25.2); outer anterior toe, 21.5-24 (22.9).» 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but red of head con- 

 fined to nape and hindneck, the crown and occiput plain brownish 

 gray (smoke gray anteriorly deepening into mouse gray posteriorly) ; 

 length (skins), 240-260 (251); wing, 127.5-137 (131.7); taU, 78-90.5 

 (85.3); culmen, 31-36 (33.3); tarsus, 23-26.5 (24.2); outer anterior 

 toe, 20.5-23 (22). » 



o Ten specimens. 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 7 



