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Subgenus PHRENOPICUS Bonaparte. 



Phrenopicus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, II, No. 8, May, 1854, 123 

 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 8). Type, by subs, desig., Picii^ queru- 

 lus Wilson = PiCM5 borealis Vieillot (Gray, 1855). 



Dryobates borealis (Vieillot). Red-cockaded Woodpecker. [395.] 



Piciis borealis Vieillot, Oiseaux Am6r. Sept., II, 1807 [1808 possibly 1809], 

 66 (pi. 122). (dans le nord des Etats-Unis = Southern States.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone of South Atlantic and Gulf States north to 

 southeastern Virginia, Tennessee, western Kentucky, and southern Missouri. 

 Accidental in New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania. 



Subgenus XENOPICUS Baihd. 



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

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xviii, xxviii, 83, 96. Type, by monotypy, 



Leuconerpes alholarvatus Cassin. 



Dryobates albolarvatus albolarvatus (Cassin). Northern White-headed 

 Woodpecker. [399.] 



Leuconerpes alholarvatus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, No. 5, 

 Sept.-Oct., 1850 [Dec. 7], 106. (near Sutter's Mill, Calif ornia = Oregon 

 Canon, near Georgetown, 12 miles from Sutter's Mill.) 



Range. — Cascade Mountains and the Sierra Nevada from Washington to 

 Kern County, California, and the inner coast ranges to Colusa County, east 

 to western Idaho and western Nevada; rarely in extreme southern British 

 Columbia. 



Dryobates albolarvatus gravirostris (Grinnell). Southern White-headed 

 Woodpecker. [399a.] 



Xenopicus gravirostris Grinnell, Condor, IV, No. 4, July 17, 1902, 89. 

 (Camp Chileo, Sierra San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, California.) 



Range. — Ti-ansition Zone of the mountains of southern Cahf ornia (San 

 Gabriel, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Cuyamaca ranges). 



Genus PICOIDES Lacepede. 



Picaides Lacepede, Tableaux Oiseaux, 1799, 7. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Picus tridactylus Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Picoides arcticus (Swainson). Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker. [400.] 



Picus {Apternus) arcticus Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Amer., II, 1831 (1832), 313. (near the sources of the 

 Athabasca River, lat. 57° N., the eastern declivity of the Rocky 

 Mountains.) 



