PICID.E — THE WOonPErKKRS. 5Q2 



domen, sides, and crissum, with patch on base of primaries, pure wliite, 

 the sides and breast with black strealcs. Other portions glossy blue- black. 

 ^. Whole crown and nape carmine. 9 with the occiput and nape 

 alone red. 



More than the anterior half of the pectoral bund immaculate. 



9 with the white frontal, black coronal, and red occipital bands 



of about equal width. Forehead and throat only slightly tinged 



with sulphur-yellow. Wing, 5.80; tail, 3.90; bill, 1.27. Hab. 



Pacific Province of United States, and Northern and Western 



I Mexico ........ var. formic iv or us. 



9 with the white frontal band only about half as wide as the 

 black coronal, which is only about half as wide as the red occipi- 

 tal, band or patch. Forehead and throat bright sulphur-yeUow. 

 Wing, .5.40 ; tail, 3.65 ; bill, 1.23. ITab. Lower California. 



var. a n gust ifr ons. 

 Nearly the whole of the black pectoral band variegated with white streaks. 

 Relative width of the white, black, and red areas on the crown as in 

 formicivorus. Wing, 5.50 ; tail, 3.75; bill. 1.22. Hab. Middle America, 

 south of Orizaba and Mirador .... var. stria tip ecttis} 



^. Nape, only, red (as in females of preceding races); 9 without 

 any red. 

 Whole breast streaked, the black and white being in about equal 

 amount. Wing, 5.70 ; tail, 3.90 ; bill, 1.20. Hab. New Granada. 



var. flavigula.' 



Melanerpes torquatus, Bonap. 



LEWIS'S WOODPECKER. 



Picus torquatus, AViLSox, Am. Orn. Ill, ISll, 31, pi. xx. — AVagler, Sjst. Av. 1S27, Ko, 

 82. — AUD. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 176, pi. ccccwi. — Ib. Buds Amer. IV, 1842, 280, pi. 

 cclxxii. — SuNDEV.iLL, Consp. 51. Melanerpes torquatus, Bp. Consp. 1850, 115. — 

 Heekmann', J. A. N. Sc. Phil. 2d ser. II, 1853, 270. — Newberry, Zoiil. Cal. & Or. 

 Route, 90, in P. R. R. Surv. VI, 1857. — Baied, Birds N. Am. 115. — Cooper & 

 SucKLET, 161. —Cassis. Pr. A. N. S. 1863, 327. —Lord, Pr. R. A. Inst. IV, 1864, 

 112 (nesting). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 406. Pji'jts montanus, Ord. in Guthrie's 

 Geog. 2d Am. ed. II, 1815, 316. Picus Icwisii, Drapiez. (Gray.) Asyndcsmus tor- 

 quatus, CotJES, Pr. A. N. S. 1866, 55. 



Sp. Char. Feathers on the under parts bristle-like. Fourth quill longest; then third 

 and fifth. Above dark glossy-green. Breast, lower part of tlie neck, and a narrow collar 

 all round, hoary grayish-white. Around the base of the bill and sides of the head to 



1 Melanerpes formicivorus, var. slriatipccttis, Ridgw.a.y. In view of the very appreciable 

 difference fiora the other races named, it appears necess;ny to name this one, in order that it 

 may rank equally with the rest. The almost entirely streaked breast is only an approach to what 

 we see, in its extreme phase, in the var. flavigula. The black vertex of the female appears 

 broader than in specimens of var. forinicivoriis. 



^ Melanerpes formicivorus, var. Jtavitjula, Natt. Melampkus flavigula (Natt.), Mai.1I. Ri^v. 

 Zool. 1849, 542, Monog. Pic. II, 202, ijl. xcix, f. 5, 6. Melanerpes flaviyularis. Sex. P. Z. S. 

 1856, 161. This can only be considered the melanistic cxtri-ine of a species of which the var. 

 formicivorus is the rubescent one, the transition being gradual through tlie var. strialipcclus of 

 the intermediate region. 



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