BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and apparently not always 

 distinguishable, but usually with the gray of chest more broken by 

 exposure of the dusky on underlying portion of the feathers ; length 

 (skins), 238-265 (254); wing, 164-175 (169.3); tail, 86-96.5 (92); 

 culmen, 25.5-33 (28.6); tarsus, 23-26 (24.6); outer anterior toe, 

 18-21 (19.6).« 



Young (hotTi sexes). — Red of head replaced (except in transition 

 plumage) by black or dusky, collar obsolete or wholly wanting, under 

 parts mostly dull pale gray or dull grayish wliite and dusky (suffused, 

 or intermixed in places with red), the feathers of softer and more 

 blended texture; inner secondaries sometimes tipped with whitish; 

 otherwise like adults. 



Transition Zone of western North America, from southern British 

 Columbia (chiefly east of Cascade Mountains, but occasional on Van- 

 couver Island) and southern Alberta (Bow River, eastern base of 

 Rocky Mountains, latitude 51°), south to southern Arizona (Santa 

 Catalina and Huachuca Mountains, Tucson, etc.) and New Mexico 

 (Chama; Mora, breeding; Long Canyon; Finos Altos, Grant County) 

 and western Texas (San Angelo; Spring Creek; Concho River), west 

 to interior valleys and coast ranges of California, east (regularly) to 

 Black Hills of South Dakota, western Nebraska, western Kansas 

 (Ellis and Finney Counties), eastern Colorado, etc., casually to eastern 

 Kansas (8 miles southeast of Ijawrence, November) and Indian 

 Territory. 



Picas torqiiatiLS (not of Boddaert, 1783 b) Wilson, Am. Om., iii, 1811, 31, pi. 20, 

 fig. 3 (Montana, about lat. 46° N.; coll. Peale's Mus.c). — Vieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 80. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 

 1826, 46; Synop. Birds U. S., 1828, 46.— Valenciennes, Diet. Sei. Nat., xl, . 

 1826, 177.— Drapiez, Diet. Class., xiii, 1828, 497.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 



a Fourteen speeimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from California (7), Oregon (1), and western 

 Nevada (2) 



Six adult males from Rocky Mountain district (Colorado to 

 New Mexico and Arizona) *. 



FEMALE.S. 



Six adult females from California (5) and Oregon (1) 



Eight adult females from Rocky Mountain district (Idaho and 

 Montana to Texas and Arizona) 



20.3 

 20.6 



19.6 

 19.6 



b = Cerchneipicus torquatus (Boddaert). 

 cSpeeimen no. 2020. 



