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GENUS PICUS. 

 P. viridis Linn, is a European species. 



P. tricolor Gm. is unidentifiable. The name was subsequently used by 

 Vieillot for a South American species. 



P. canadensis Gm. is a synonym of "Dryobates villosus [I/.] var. cana- 

 densis" (Bodd.). 



P. querulus 'Wils.Dryobates borealis (Vieill.'). 

 P. major L. is a European species. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN W. P. MONTANUS." This is a new name, here 

 proposed by Ord for a "Woodpecker" described as follows in the 

 Narrative of Lewis and Clark's expedition, (vol. i, p. 398), "Among the 

 woods Captain Clarke observed a species of woodpecker, the beak and 

 tail of which were white, the wings black, and every other part of the 

 body of a dark brown ; its size was that of a robin and it fed on the seeds 

 of the pine." This was the Clark's Nutcracker Picicorviis columbi- 

 anus (Wils.). Picus montanus Ord will therefore become a synonym of 

 this species, which, in turn, has recently been shown* to be genericall}- 

 identical with Nucifraga of the Old World. 



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 GENUS ALCEDO. 



A. torquata L. This species is properly a resident of South and Central 

 America and southern Mexico, but a specimen has been recently taken 

 on the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas (Auk, 1894) so that it may have just 

 claims as a bird of the United States. 



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 GENUS SITTA. 

 S. varia Wils. =5". canadensis L. 



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 GENUS TOD US. 



T. obscurus Gm. The true Todies are restricted to the West Indies. 

 This bird is described from Rhode Island and seems to be a small Tyrant 

 Flycatcher, perhaps Sayomis phcebe. The description is too meagre 

 however to make the name of any value. 



Auk, 1894, p. 179. 



