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Chihuahua (Carmen; San Luis Mts.; Bravo; Pacheco; Colonia Garcia; 

 Bostillos; 30 miles west of Minaca; Casas Grandes; Pinos Altos; 

 ReMgio; San Jose; Tomochic; Jesus Maria); and Durango (Cienega 

 de las Vacas; Arroyo del Buey; El Sal to; Rio Sestin; Chacala; Los 

 Coyotes; Ciudad). 



Melanerpes formidvorus (not Picus formicivorus Swainson) Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 114, part (Los Nogales, Sonora; Copper Mines and 

 Ft. Thorn, New Mexico); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 

 6, part (Lo8 Nogales; Copper Mines; Ft. Thorn); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 95, part.— CouES, Ibis, 1865, 162, in text (Ft. Whipple, Arizona); Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 55 (Ft. "WTiipple; variations in color of iris, etc.); 

 Check List, 1873, no. 310, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 310, part.— Cooper, Orn. 

 Calif., 1870, 403, part (Arizona).— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Coll. '^^Tieeler's 

 Surv., 1874, 134 (Oak Orchard and Apache, Arizona; habits); Zool. Exp. 

 W. 100th Merid., 1875, 399 (Camp Apache, Oak Orchard, and Chiricahua 

 Mts., Arizona). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 

 412, part (Santa Rosa and Yecaera, Sonora; Pinos Altos, Refugio, San Jos^, 

 Tomochic, and Jesus Maria, Chihuahua; Ciudad Durango, Durango; Ari- 

 zona). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 

 120 (check list no. 407), part.— Hunn, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 421 (Piiios Altos, 

 Grant Co., New Mexico). — Wetmore, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., iv, no. 19, 

 1908, 379 (Bill Williams Mt., Arizona). 



[Melanerpes formicivorus] var. formicivorus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 561, part (n. w. Mexico). 



Melanerpes formicivorus, y&r . formicivorus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 566, part. 



Melanerpes formicivorus formicivorus Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 xxii, 1906, 165 (Cienega de las Vacas, Arroyo del Buey, Rio Sestin, etc., 

 n. w. Durango). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 

 1910, 192, part (Arizona; New Mexico). — Bergtold, Auk, xxix, 1912, 332 

 (Gila R., New Mexico). 



Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21, 1881, 

 35 (no. 377), 85, part (w. Mexico).— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 454, part.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 24 (Chiricahua 

 Mts., Arizona). — Scott, Auk, ii, 1885, 174, 356 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona); 

 iii, 1886, 427 (Pinal and Santa Catalina Mts., resident down to 4,000 ft.). — 

 Henshaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 79 (upper Pecos R., New Mexico, August). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 

 407, part. — Shufeldt, Auk, iv, 1887, 345 (Ft. Wingate, New Mexico). — 

 Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 48 (n. e. Arizona). — Merelam, North Am. Fauna, 

 no. 3, 1890, 39, 92 (Grand Canyon of Colorado, n. Arizona). — Rhoads, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 116 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, oak 

 belt up to 9,000 ft.).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 36 (n. e. 

 Sonora and n. w. Chihuahua). 



M[elanerpes] formicivorus bairdi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 291, part. 



M[elanerpes] f[ormicivorus] bairdi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 489, 

 part. 



Melanerpes formicivorus aculeatus Mearns, Auk, vii, no. 3, July, 1890, 249 (Squaw 

 Peak, central Arizona; coll. E. A. Mearns), 253 (mts. of Arizona, throughout 

 pine belt; habits).— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 597.— 

 Swarth, Pacific Coast Airfauna, no. 4, 1904, 13 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, 

 chiefly below 6,000 ft.; crit.); Condor, vii, 1905, 78 (Santa Rita Mts., 

 Arizona). 



