MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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Picus (Dendrocopus) meridionalis Swaixson, Ibid. (Southern race.) 



Picus Gairdneri Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 317, 1839. (Northwestern form.) — 



Baird, Birds N. Am., 91, 1858. 

 Picus meridionalis Nuttall, Man. Orn., I,(2d Ed.) 690, 1840. (Not of Swainson). 

 Picus Lecontei Jones, Ann. N. York Lye. Nat. Hist., IV, 489, pi. xviii, 1848. 



(Three-toed specimen.) 

 Picus Turati Maliierbe, Mon. Pic., I, 125, pi. xxix, fig. 5, 6. — Cassin, Proc. 



Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1863, 202. 



Common. Much more numerous than Picus villosus. 



The difference in size and color between northern and southern speci- 

 mens has been sufficiently detailed under the previous species. 



73.* Picus borealis Vieillot. Red-cockaded Woodpecker. 



Picus borealis Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., II, 66, pi. exxii, 1807. — Cassin, 



Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1863, 203. 

 Picus querulus Wilson, Am. Orn., II, 103, pi. xv, fig. 1, 1810. — Cassin, Proc. 



Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1863, 203. 



Common in the pineries. 



Mr. Cassin regards the Carolina and Georgia representatives of this 

 species as specifically distinct from the Pennsylvania ones. He says that 

 they are as distinct and as easily recognized as are Picks villosus and P. 

 Harrisii, which he of course regards as valid species. He assigns Yieillot's 



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