ORDER PICIFORMES. 187 



Order PICIFORMES. Woodpeckers, Jacamars, 

 Toucans, and Barbets. 



Suborder PICI. Woodpeckers and Wrynecks. 



Family PICIDAE. Woodpeckers. 



Subfamily PICINAE. Typical Woodpeckers. 



Genus COLAPTES Vigors. 



Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XIV, Pt. iii, 1826 (?) [read Dec. 

 23, 1825], 457 (note). Type, by orig. desig., Cuculus auratus Linnaeus. 



Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs. Northern Flicker. [412«.] 



Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, Auk, XV, No. 2, April, 1898, 177. (Water- 

 town, Mass.) 



Range. — Breeds from Canada east of the Rocky Mountains and north to 

 the limit of trees in Alaska and throughout the northern and central United 

 States south to the northern edge of the Lower Austral Zone; more or less 

 regularly resident except in the extreme northern parts of its range. South in 

 winter to the Gulf coast and southern Texas. Accidental in Greenland and 

 on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. 



Colaptes auratus auratus (Linnaeus). Southern Flicker. [412.] 



Cuculus auratus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 112. Based on 

 The Golden-winged Woodpecker, Picus major, alis aureis Catesby, 

 Carolina, I, 18. (in Carolina = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone of the South Atlantic and Gulf states from 

 North Carolina to southern Florida and central Texas north to extreme 

 southern Illinois and Indiana, southeastern Missouri, and southeastern Kansas. 



Colaptes cafer cafer (Gmelin). Northwestern Flicker. [413a.] 



Picus cafer Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, p. 431. (ad caput bonae 

 spei = Bay of Good Hope, Nootka Sound, British Columbia.) 



Range. — Northwest coast from Sitka, Alaska, to northern California 

 (Humboldt County), including most of southern British Columbia east to the 

 Kootenay district. 



