434 PICIDE. 
Dendrocopus stricklandi has always been a rare bird in collections, probably due to 
the high elevation at which it is found over a limited area of Mexico. Sallé and his 
immediate successors secured a few specimens, which were recorded by Mr. Sclater 27. 
More recently Don F. Ferrari-Perez found it on the hills surrounding the Valley of 
Mexico and at Las Vigas; Mr. W. B. Richardson on the slopes of Ixtaccihuatl ; 
Trujillo on the Cofre de Perote; and Mr. Baker at the foot of the peak of Orizaba, 
at an altitude of 8700 feet °. 
The only species D. stricklandi at all resembles is D. arizonw, which, indeed, passed 
under the former name until Mr. Hargitt showed that the two birds belonged to quite 
distinct species. 
The dark portion of the plumage of both birds is of a similar shade of brown, but 
_D. stricklandi not only has the breast streaked instead of spotted as in D. arizone, but 
the back is transversely banded with broad white bars. 
4, Dendrocopus arizone. 
Picus stricklandi, Gray (nec Malh.), List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 37’; Hensh. U. 8S. Geogr. Surv. 
W. of 100th Merid. p. 389”. 
Dryobates stricklandi, A. O. U. List N. Am. Birds, p. 213°. 
Picus arizone, Hargitt, Ibis, 1886, p. 115 *. 
Dendrocopus arizone, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviil. p. 228”. 
Dryobates arizone fraterculus, Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 286°. 
Supra brunneus, uropygio paulo saturatiore, nucha coccinea, stria postoculari, altera infra oculos ad cervicis 
latera extendente albis: subtus albus, gutture fere immaculato, plumis reliquis macula brunnea discali 
notatis; hypochondriis imis brunneo transfasciatis; remigibus in pogonio externo et alis subtus fere 
omnino albo maculatis; caude rectricibus externis albis, regulariter fusco fasciatis; rostro et pedibus 
nigricantibus. Long. tota circa 7°5, ale 4:6, caude 3° 8, rostri a rictu 2° 2, tarsi 0°8, dig. med. absque 
ungue 0°5, dig. ext. 0°55. 
9 mari similis, plaga nuchali coccinea absente. (Descr. maris et femine ex Temosachic, Chihuahua, Mexico. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nortu America, Arizona? ?,—Mexico, near Oposura in Sonora (Cahoon), Yecera 
(W. Lloyd), Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn, W. Lloyd), Rio Verde, ‘Temosachic, 
Tomochic, and Rio de Urique in Chihuahua (W. Lloyd), La Laguna in the Sierra 
de Alica (Dr. A. C. Buller, in Mus. Rothschild), Tepic, Sierra de Nayarit, Sierra de 
Valparaiso, Sierra de Bolafios (W. B. Richardson), Hacienda de San Marcos 
(W. Lloyd), Volcan de Colima (W. B. Richardson), Sierra Nevada de Colima 
(Xantus °). 
This Woodpecker is found in the North-western and Western Sierras of Mexico, 
passing the political frontier into Arizona, where it has of recent years been found by 
many collectors. . 
Its southern range extends to the Sierra Nevada de Colima, where Xantus found it, 
and in the same district Mr. Lloyd procured us several specimens near the Hacienda de 
