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Adult female.— Length (skins), 435 ;<^ wing, 232-243 (236.7); tail, 

 154.5-162.5 (159.2); culmen, 50.5-53 (52); tarsus, 33.5-35.5 (34.3); 

 outer anterior toe, 25-27 (25.8).^ 



Northern Upper Austral, Transition, and Canadian zone forests of 

 eastern North America, from West Virginia (Rocco), western Penn- 

 sylvania (Erie; Lake Pleasant; Chnton County), New York, New 

 England, Wisconsin (^lenomonie), Minnesota (St. Cloud; Moores 

 Lake), etc., north to New Brunswick (Great Falls; Fort Fairfield), 

 Nova Scotia, Keewatin (Sturgeon Lake; Nelson River), Mackenzie 

 (Big Island, Great Slave Lake; Fort Liard), etc.; probably south 

 through southern Alleghenies and over northern Ohio, Indiana, Ilh- 

 nois, etc., and west to base of Rocky Mountains. 



Picus pileatus (not of Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 27, part, pi. 29, fig. 1 

 (by error fig. 2 on plate). — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826 

 (Synop. Birds U. S.), 44, part. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Land 

 Birds, 1832, 567, part; 2d ed., 1840, 671, part.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 

 1834, 74, part; v, 1839, 533, part; Synopsis, 1839, 176, part; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., iv, 1842, 226, part.— Willis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 

 284 (Nova Scotia). — Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 8, part. 



P[icus] pileatus Bonaparte, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 368, 

 part; Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [28], part. 



Picus (Dryotomus) pileatus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 304. 



Dryocopus pileatus Barry, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1854, 8 (Wisconsin). 



D[ryocopus] pileatus Ridgway Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 377, part (Illinois). 



Hylatomus pileatus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 107, part; Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 90, part. — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 3 (n. branch of 

 Saskatchewan R.). — Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst., 1862, 144 (Oxford Co., 

 Maine).— Merriam, BulL Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 6 (Lewis Co., n. e. New 

 York).— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1879, 234, part, pi. 19, figs. 1-4. 



Eylotomus pileatus Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 52 (Sturgeon Lake, Keewatin). — 

 MclLWRAirH, Bull. Essex Inst., 1866, 83 (Hamilton, Ontario). — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 291 (Hoboken, New Jersey).— Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 294, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 432, part; Birds North West, 1874, 

 278, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 551, part, pi. 56, figs. 4, 5. — Brewster, Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1875, 144 

 (Ritchie Co., West Virgina).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 189, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 371, part.— Knowlton, BuU. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 63 (Brandon, Vermont).— Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, vii, 1882, 150 (Grand Falls and Ft. Fairfield, New Brunswick; Houlton, 

 Maine).— Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, \di, 1882, 236 (Point de Monts. 

 Quebec).— Brackett, Quart. Journ. Bost. Zool. Soc, iii, 1884, 17 (near Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 283 (s. e. South Dakota). 



[Eylotomus] pileatus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 192, part. 



Elylotomus] pileatus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 480, part. 



Ceophlccus pileatus American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 

 2d ed., 1895), no. 405, part.— Norton, Auk, v, 1888, 111 (Franklin Co., 

 Massachusetts). — Brewster, Auk, v, 1888, 390 (Winchendon, Massachu- 

 setts, resident).— Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, 1, 1889, 382, part. — Thompson, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 550 (Manitoba, resident).— Sage, Auk., 



'^ One specimen. ^ Three specimens. 



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