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ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



SPHYRAPICUS VARIUS (Linn.), var. NUCHALIS, Bd. 

 Rcd-iiapetl Woodpecker. 



Spliyrapicus nuclmlis, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 921, pi. 35. HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat, 

 Sci. Phila,, 1859, 105 (New Mexico). COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 

 18CG, 53 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 4G3. 



Splnjropicw nuchalis, COOPER, Birds Gal., i, 1870, 390. YARROW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 

 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 36. 



Sphyrapicus varius var. nuchalis, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 103 (iu text). ALLEN, Bui. 

 Mus. Couip- Zob'l., 1872, 180 (mountains of Colorado). COUES, Key N. A. 

 Birds, 1872, 195. BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 542, pi. 51, 

 figs. 3, 4. ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, lt'74, 33. COUES, 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 286. 



varius var. nuchalis, YARROW & HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheel- 

 er's Exped., 1874, 24. HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 89, 133. 



Picus varius, BD., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 326. HEERM.. P. R. R. 

 Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 58. 



Sphyrapicus varius, HOLD., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 207. 



With all the habits and notes of the eastern Yellow-bellied Wood- 

 pecker, this variety is found throughout the Rocky Mountains, extending 

 on the west to the Sierra Nevada, where it gives way to the var. ruber. It 

 everywhere shows a very marked preference for the deciduous timber, to 

 the avoidance of the pines, and is particularly numerous in the aspens, 

 among which it extends upward on the mountains as high as 12,000 feet, and 

 at which elevation it was observed by Dr. Rothrock in South Park, Colorado. 



In Southern Colorado, I found this and the succeeding species inhabiting 

 the same region in June ; yet the habits of the two were sufficiently distinct 

 as to draw a sharp line between the areas inhabited by either, and the two 

 apparently never encroached on each other's domain, though I have often 



