36 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



COLAPTES CAFER SATURATIOR (Ridgway). 

 NORTHWESTERN FLICKER. 



Similar to C. c. collaris but larger and darker (darker even than 

 C. c. cafer), the upper parts browner, the under parts of body more 

 strongly vinaceous. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 297-312 (306); wmg, 164.5-177.5 

 (169.9); tail, 113-124 (118.7); culmen, 37-42.5 (39.8); tarsus, 29-31 

 (30); outer anterior toe, 22.5-25 (23.9).« 



Adult female.— Length (skuis), 285-313 (297); wing, 163.5-171 

 (167.1); tail, 110-123.5 (117); culmen, 36-40 (37.7); tarsus, 26-30,5 

 (28.7); outer anterior toe, 21-24 (22.7)." 



Northwest coast district, from northern California (Humboldt 

 Bay, etc.) to southern Alaska (Sitka; Taku River; Kupreanoff, 

 Dall, Gravina, Revillagigedo, and Etolin islands). 



Colaptes mexicanus (not of Swainson) Nuttall, Man, Orn. U. S. and Can., Land 

 Birds, 2d ed., 1840, 667, part.— Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 236 

 (Vancouver I.).— Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, 

 pt. ii, 1860, 163 (Washington and Oregon west of Cascade Mts.).— Lord, 

 Proc. Roy. Artil. Inst. Woolw., iv, 1864, 112 (Brit. Cohimbia).— Brown, 

 Ibis, 1868, 419 (Vancouver I.). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago 

 Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 275 (Sitka, Alaska).— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 408, part.— 

 CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 314, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 459, part; Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 294, part.— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 425 (Esqui- 

 mault, Vancouver I.).— Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 17, 

 part (Vancouver, San Juan, and Orcas islands, and Esquimault, Brit. Colum- 

 bia; Whitby Island, Washington; Albany, Oregon). 



[Colaptes] mexicanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 198, part. 



Clolaptes] mexicanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 493, part. 



Colaptes auralus mexicanus Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 3786, part. 



Colaptes mexicanus saturatior Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ii, April 10, 

 1884, 90 (Neah Bay, Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Colaptes cafer saturatior American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 

 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 413a; 3d ed., 1910, 195.— Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. 

 Coll. Alaska, 1887, 161 (Sitka).— Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 

 1887, 206 ("Redwood region" and Red Bluff, California). — Chapman, Bull, 

 Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 139 (Westminster, Brit. Columbia). — Fannin, 

 Check List Bu-ds Brit. Col., 1891, 29 (west of Cascade Mts.).— Palmer (T. S.), 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 309 (Grays Harbor, Washington). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 137.— Grinnell (J.), Auk, xv, 1898, 127 (Sitka); Pacific 

 Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 39 (California range).— Kobbe, Auk, xvii, 1900, 

 352 (Cape Disappointment, Washington, resident). — Osgood, North Am. 

 Fauna, no. 21, 1901, 45 (Cumshewa Inlet and Massett, Queen Charlotte 

 Islands). — Rathbun, Auk, xix, 1902, 135 (Seattle, Washington, resident). — 

 Anderson and Grinnell, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1903, 9 (Siskiyou Mts., 

 n. California; crit.). — Bowles, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 144 (Tacoma, Washington, 

 resident). — Edson, Auk, xxv, 1908, 434 (Bellingham, Washington, resi- 

 dent). — Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 60 (Dockton, Wash- 

 ington; Union Bay, Vancouver I.). — Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vii, 

 1911, 70 (Kupreanof, Dall, Gravina, Revillagigedo, and Etolin islands, and 

 Taku R., Alaska; crit.; habits); Rep. Birds and Mam. Vane. I., 1912, 39 

 (crit.). 



a Ten specimens. 



