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Sphyrapicus varius varius (Linnaeus) . Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. [402.] 



Picus varius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 176. Based mainly on 

 The Yellow belly'd Woodpecker, Picus varitis minor ventro luteo 

 Catesby, Carolina, I, 21. (in America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Canadian and upper part of Transition zones from 

 central Mackenzie, central Alberta, Manitoba, southern Quebec, and Cape 

 Breton Island south to central Missouri, central Indiana, northern Ohio, North 

 Carolina (mountains), and Massachusetts (mountains of northern Berkshire 

 Coimty); casually Connecticut. Winters from Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, 

 and Massachusetts to the Gulf coast, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, western 

 Mexico (Jalisco), and western Panama. Casual or accidental in Wyoming, 

 eastern Colorado, Greenland, Bermuda, and St. Croix. 



Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis Baird. Red-naped Sapsucker. [402a.] 



Sphyrapicus varius var. nuchalis Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, 

 Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxviii, 103. (Mimbres River, 

 New Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Boreal and Transition zones; chiefly east of the Sierra 

 Nevada and Cascade ranges, and from central British Columbia and southern 

 Alberta south to northeastern California, eastern Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, 

 central New Mexico, western Texas, and Arizona. Winters south to west- 

 central Mexico and Lower California. Casual in Kansas. 



Sphyrapicus varius ruber (Gmelin). Northern Red-breasted Sapsucker. 



[403a.] 



Picus ruber Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 429. Based on the Red- 

 breasted Woodpecker Latham, General Synops., I, 562. (in Cayenna = 

 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island.) 



Range. — Breeds from Alaska (Skag-\vay) south to western Oregon, chiefly 

 in the Canadian Zone. Winters south to Monterey, California. 



Sphyrapicus varius daggetti Grinnell. Southern Red-breasted Sap- 

 sucker. [403.] 



Sphyrapicus varius daggetti Grinnell, Condor, III, No. 1, Jan. 15, 1901, 12. 

 (Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California.) 



Range. — Breeds in the mountains of California, from the Trinity and 

 Warner moimtains south to the San Jacinto Mountains, in the Canadian and 

 Transition zones. Winters in adjacent lowlands and south in northwestern 

 Lower CaUfornia to about lat. 30°. 



Sphyrapicus thyroideus thyroideus (Cassin). Williamson's Sapsucker. [404.] 



Picus thyroideus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, No. 12, Nov.- 

 Dec, 1851 [Feb. 17, 1852], 349. (CaUfornia = Georgetown, about 

 twelve miles from Sutter's Mill, Eldorado County.) 



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