Texan Woodpecker 227 



Texan Woodpecker. Dryobates scalaris hairdi. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 396— Colorado Records— Cooke 97, pp. 83, 162 ; 

 Warren 00, p. 21. 



Description. — Male — Above regularly barred with black and white ; 

 crown black, specked with white and overlaid by crimson ; tail-covert 

 and four central tail-feathers black, outer ones barred black and white, 

 below, including a stripe through the eye and the frontal bristles smoky 

 grey, whiter posteriorly ; the flanks and abdomen spotted with black. 

 Length 6-0 ; wing 4-1 ; tail 2-5 ; cuknen '85 ; tarsus •!. 



The female has no crimson on the head, which is plain black. 



Distribution. — From western Texas, southern Colorado and south-east 

 California south to northern Mexico. 



The Texan Woodpecker was first noticed in Colorado by Lowe, who 

 informed Cooke that it was a not uncommon resident in Pueblo and 

 Huerfano cos., and that he beheved that they nested in the St. Charles 

 canon near Beulah. Warren obtained a pair near Springfield in Baca 

 CO., and recently Aiken has received examples from Mr. Wright, taken 

 in the Fountain Valley some twenty miles north of Pueblo. It is no 

 doubt a resident throughout the south-eastern part of the State at low 

 or moderate elevations. 



Genus PICOIDES. 



With three toes only, the inner posterior or hallux being absent ; 

 plumage black and white, rather similar to that of Dryobates, but the 

 head-patch of the male yellow, not red. 



A circiunpolar genus confined to the northern parts of the Old and 

 New Worlds ; two species and one additional siibspecies in the 

 United States. 



Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Piciodes americanus dorsalis. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 401b — Colorado Records — Allen 72, pp. 163, 

 180; Henshaw 75, p. 391 ; Scott 79, p. 95; Drew 81, p. 141 ; 85, 

 p. 17 ; Stone 84, p. 9 ; Morrison 88, p. 107 ; 89, p. 67 ; Kellogg 90, 

 p. 87 ; Bendu-e 92, p. 80 ; Lowe 94, p. 268 ; Cooke 97, pp. 83, 207 ; 

 Bangs 00, p. 135 ; Henderson 03, p. 107 ; 09, p. 231. 



Description. — Male — Above black, a white stripe down the middle 

 of the back not interrupted by conspicuous barring ; primaries and 

 secondaries with white spots, but none on the coverts ; central tail- 

 feathers black ; lateral ones black and white ; crown-patch golden- 

 yellow ; rest of the head black, with a few white spots and conspicuous 

 postocular and malar white stripes ; below white, a few black spots 



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