464 CHECK -LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Asio wilsonianus (Lesson). Long-eared Owl. 



Otiis Wilsonianus Lesson, Traite d'Orn., Livr. 2, May 8, 1830, 110. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Samwel Cave, Shasta County, and 

 Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan). Shoit-eared Owl. 



Strix flammea Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, G17 (pi. xxv). 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Order PICIFORMES. Woodpeckers, Jacamars, 

 AND Allies. 



Suborder PICI. Woodpeckers and Wrynecks. 



Family PICIDAE. Woodpeckers. 

 Subfamily PICINAE. Woodpeckers. 



Genus COLAPTES Vigors. 



Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIV, Pt. iii, 1825, 457 (note). 

 Type, by orig. desig., Cuculus auratus Linnaeus. 



Colaptes cafer (Gmelin). Red-shafted Flicker. 



Picas cafer Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 431. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Samwel and Potter Creek Caves, 

 Shasta County, Hawver Cave, Eldorado County, Carpinteria and Rancho 

 La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus CEOPHLOEUS Cabanis. 



Ceophloeus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., XII, No. 5, May, 1862, 176. Type, 

 by orig. desig., F-'iciis linealus Linnaeus. 



Subgenus PHLOEOTOMUS. Cabanis and Heine. 



Phloeotnmus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., IV, Pt. ii, sig. 13, for July 

 11, 1863, 102. Type, by orig. desig.. Picas pileatus Linnaeus. 



Ceophloeus pileatus (Linnaeus). Plicated Woodpecker. 



Picus pileatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 113. (Carolina.) 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Cave deposits of Tennessee. 



