20 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



COLAPTES AURATUS BOREALIS Ridgway. . 



BOREAL FLICKER. 



Similar to C. a. auratus and C. a. luteus in coloration, but larger 

 than the latter, much larger than the former." 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 270-314 (292); wing, 156-170 (162.9); 

 tail, 102.5-115 (107); culmen, 34.5-40 (36.4); tarsus, 27-31.5 (29); 

 outer anterior toe, 21-24.5 (22.5).^ J 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 270-310 (287); wing, 156-171 ~ 

 (162.3); tail, 99-115 (105.5); culmen, 32.5-38.5 (35.6); tarsus, 

 27.5-30.5 (28.8); outer anterior toe, 21-23.5 (22.2).*^ 



Northern North America, east of Eocky Mountains, from Labrador, 

 Quebec, northern Ontario, Minnesota, North Dakota, eastern Mon- 

 tana, eastern Wyoming, etc., north to the limit of tree growth (north- 

 ern Ungava, Mackenzie, etc.), northwestward through Alaska to the 

 shores of Bering Sea and to valley of the Kowak River; accidental 

 on Pribilof Islands and in Greenland; occasional in winter along or 

 near Pacific coast through British Columbia (including Vancouver 

 Island) to California, and along Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 



[Picus] auratus (not of Linnseus) Forstee, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 383, 387 

 (Albany Fort). 



Colaptes auratus Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 8 (accidental in Greenland). — Blak- 

 ISTON, Ibis, 1862, 3 (Hudson Bay). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago 

 Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 275 (near Ft. Yukon and Nulato, Alaska). — Allen, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 63 (Ft. Rice, North Dakota, and west of Mussel- 

 shell R.).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 312, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 457, 

 part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 292, part; Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., iv, 1878, 617 (Pembina, Mouse R., Turtle Mt., etc.. North Dakota; 

 crit.). — Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, 97 (Greenland, 1 

 spec, 1852). — Grinnell (G. B.), in Ludlow's Rep. Recon., 1876, 81 (Mis- 

 souri R. as far as Ft. Buford). — McChesney, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Surv. Terr., v. 1879, 82 (Ft. Sisseton, North Dakota, resident). — Ridg- 

 way, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 378, part. — Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin,' 

 1881 (1883), 74 (head of Norton Sound, Kotzebue Sound, and Bering Strait, 

 Alaska); Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 160 (Sitka, etc., Alaska; lower 

 Anderson R., Mackenzie). — McLenegan, Cruise 'Corwin,' 1884, 117 (upper 

 Kowak R., Alaska). — Stearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 118 

 (L'Anse Claire, Labrador). — Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 242 

 (nearApotok I., Hudson Strait; Northwest R., Ungava); Contr. Nat. Hist. 

 Alaska, 1886, 166 (Ft. Yukon).— (?)Ball, Auk, ii, 1885, 383 (San Bernardino 

 Co., California, 3 specs.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 412, part.— (?)Cooper, Auk, iv, 1887, 91 

 (West Grove, Ventura Co., California, 1 spec, Nov.). — (?)Thorne, Auk, 

 iv, 1887, 364 (Colorado).— (?)Cooke, BuU. Col. Agric. Coll., no. 37, 1897, 

 85 (Ft. Lyons, Loveland, and South Platte, Colorado, autumn and winter); 

 no. 44, 1898, 162 (Arkansas Valley, e. Colorado). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiii, 1890, 551 (Manitoba, resident; habits). — Palmer (W.), Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 262 (St. Johns, Newfoundland) .—Clarke (W. E.), 

 Auk, vii, 1890, 322 (Ft. Churchill, Hudson Bay).— Haegitt, Cat. Birds 



o See remarks on p. 15, footnote. 

 ^ Twenty-seven specimens, 

 c Eighteen specimens. 



