192 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Melanerpes formicivorus hairdi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 21, 

 1881, 34, 85. (California** western Mexico down to Colima at least = 

 Petaluma, California.) 



Range. — Upper Austral and lower part of Transition zones of the Pacific 

 coast region from southwestern Oregon south to southern California. 



Balanosphyra fonnicivora martirensis Grinnell and Swarth. San Pedro 

 Woodpecker. [407d.] 



Balanosphyra fonnicivora martirensis Grinnell and Swarth, Condor, 

 XXVIII, No. 4, July 15, 1926, 176. (La Jolla, Sierra San Pedro 

 Mdrtir, Lower California.) 



Range. — Mainly in the Upper Austral Zons of northwestern Lower Cali- 

 fornia from about lat. 30° north nearly to the United States boundary. 



Balanosphyra formicivora angustifrons (Baird). Narrow-fronted Wood- 

 pecker. [4076.] 



Melaner-pes formicivorus var. angustifrons Baird, in Cooper, Geol. Surv. 

 Calif., Orn., I, 1870, 405. (Cape San Lucas [Lower California].) 



Range. — Cape region of Lower California. 



[Additional races of B. formicivora occur in Central and northern South 

 America.] 



Genus ASYNDESMUS Coues. 



Asyndesmus Cotjes, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XVII] 1866, No. 1, 

 Jan.-March [June 11], 55. Type, by orig. desig., Picus torquatus 

 Wilson = Picus levris Gray. 



Asyndesmus lewis Gray. Lewis's Woodpecker. [408.] 



Picus Levois "Drapiez," Gray, Gen. Birds, III, 1849, App., 27. New 

 name for Picus torquatus Wilson, Amer. Orn., Ill, 31. (No locality 

 mentioned = Montana, about lat. 46° N.) 



Range. — Transition Zone from southern British Columbia and southern 

 Alberta to Arizona and New Mexico, and from the inner coast ranges of 

 California to the Black Hills, South Dakota, western Nebraska, western 

 Kansas, and eastern Colorado. In winter to extreme northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia, western Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico, Casual in eastern Kansas and 

 Oklahoma; accidental in Rhode Island. 



Genus SPHYRAPICUS Baird. 



Sphyrapicus Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and 

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xviii, xxviii, 80, 101. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Picus varius Linnaeus. 



