98 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



YouTig female. — Similar to the adult female, but median portion 

 of crown and occiput red (more or less extensively), and abdomen 

 less strongly suffused with red. 



Island of Jamaica (Spanishtown; Moneague; Mansfield, near Bath; 

 Windsor; Priestmans River; Westmoreland; Kingston; St. Catherine; 

 Port Henderson). 



[Piciis] carolinus (not of Linnaus, 1758) Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766^ 

 175, part (Jamaica).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 431, part (Jamaica). 



P[iais] radiolatus Waglee, Syst. Av., 1827, Picus, sp. 39 (Jamaica); Isis, 1829, 

 512. 



Picus radiolatus Stjndevall, Consp. Av. Kcin., 1866, 52. 



C[mturus\ radiolatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 442.— Newton (A. and E.), 

 Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 109.— Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 98 

 (diagnosis). 



Centuras radiolatus Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 271. — Sclatbr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1861, 79; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 343.— Albkecht, Joum. fiir Om., 

 1862, 203.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 284.— Ridgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 111 (monogr.).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 

 1882, 399.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 378; Birds West Ind., 1889, 173.— Scott, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 275. — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 124 (Port Henderson, Jamaica; 

 habits, etc.)., 



[Centurus] radiolatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 118; Ateneo Italiano, ii, 



1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 11.)— Sclatbr and Salvin, Nom. Av. 



Neotr., 1873, 100.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 20. 



Zebrapims radiolatus Malhebbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 237; iv, 1862, pi. 104, 

 figs. 5, 6. 



Melanerpes radiolatus Habgitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 166 (Moneague 

 and Spanishtown, Jamaica). — Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 104, 130. 



[Melanerpes] radiolatus Sharpb, Hand-list, ii,' 1900, 210. 



(l)Picas alhifrons SwAiNSON,<t Philos. Mag., n. s., i, June, 1827, 439 ("table- 

 land" of Mexico — error?; coll. Bullock). — Lesson, Compl. Buffon, ix, ' 

 1837, 318. 



Plicus] alhifrons Wagler, Isis, 1829, 514. 



Picus larvatus Temminck, PI. Col., iv, livr. 73, 1827, in text to P. superdliaris. 



CENTURUS STRIATUS (MuUer). 

 HAITIAN WOOSFECKER. 



Adult male. — Crown, occiput, nape, post-auricular region, and 

 hindneck bright crimson or dark poppy red, the feathex's slate-grayish 

 beneath the surface; forehead and superciliary region (broadly) light 

 smoke gray, the loral, suborbital, auricular, and malar regions, chin, 

 and upper throat darker or more brownish gray (between pale hair 

 brown and drab-gray) ; a white line down side of neck, with a black 

 line between it and the red of post-auricular region; back and scapu- 

 lars black, sharply and regularly barred with light wax yellow or olive- 

 yeUow, sometimes ocher yellow (rarely orange-ochraceous), the rump 



o The full description is as follows: 



"Above blackish, transversely marked with white lines, beneath olivaceous; front, 

 chin, and sides of the head red; crown and neck red. 

 "Tableland: rare. 

 "Total length, lOi [inches]; bill lA; wings, 5; tail, 4." 



