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Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, 581 (Mt. Sanhedrin, Mendocino Co., California; meas- 

 urements; crit.)- — Bowles, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 144 (Tacoma, Washington, 

 breeding). 



Phlceotomus pileatus abieticola American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, XXV, July, 1908, 374, part; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 192, part.— Kel- 

 logg, Condor, xiii, 1911, 119 (Trinity Co., California). — Grinnell (J.), 

 Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 8, 1912, 15. — Saunders, Condor, xiv, 1912, 26 

 (Powell Co., s. w. Montana). — Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., x, 1912, 

 38 (Parksville, Errington, French Creek, Little Qualicum R., Alberni, and 

 Central Lake, Vancouver I.; crit.). — Jewett, Condor, xiv, 1912, 192 (Saw- 

 tooth Mts., Idaho). 



[Dryotomus] abieticola Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 232, part. 



Phloeotomus pileatus picinus Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Soc, iv, April 2, 1910, 

 79 (Sumas, British Columbia; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). — Ridgway, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, 1911, 34 (geog. range). 



Genus CAMPEPHILUS Gray. 



Campephilus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 54. (Type, by original designation, 



Picus principalis Linnaeus.) 

 Campophilus (emendation) Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, July, 



1863, 100. 

 Megapicos (not of Malherbe, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Moselle, 5^ cahier, 1848-1849, 



17) Malherbe, Mem. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 317. (Type, Picus imperialis 



Gould?) « 

 Megapicus (emendation) Bonaparte, Ateneo Italian©, ii, 1854, 122 (Consp. 



Yolucr. Zygod., 1854, 7). 



Very large Picidse^ (wing 230-320 mm.) with outer hind toe much 

 longer than outer front toe, bill longer than head, with gonys nearly 

 four times as long as mandibular rami, head with a very conspicuous 

 occipito-nuchal, more or less recurved, crest (bright red in males, 

 glossy black and more strongly recurved in females), the general 

 color uniform glossy blue-black reUeved by white secondaries and 

 under wing-coverts, and a white stripe along each side of inter- 

 scapular area (a white stripe down side of neck in two species), the 

 biU ivory white or yellowish. 



BiU longer than head, broadly chisel-shaped at tip, much broader 

 than deep at anterior end of nostrils, abruptly contracted terminally 

 in vertical profile; culmen very strongly ridged, straight or very 

 faintly convex; gonys strongly ridged, nearly four times as long as 

 mandibular rami, straight terminally, very faintly convex basally; 

 supranasal ridge and prenasal groove very distinct, parallel with 

 cuhnen, running to (or near to) edge of maxiUa at a point about 



o The species mentioned are, in the sequence given: 1. M. imperialis (Gould); 2. 

 M. principalis (Linnaeus); 3. M. malherbii (Gray); 4. M. albirostris (Vieillot) =PicMS 

 melanoleucus Gmelin, and 5. M. validus {Tev!nmnck) = C'hrysocoloptes validus. Of 

 these only nos. 1 and 2 belong to Campephilus, nos. 3 and 4 belonging to the genus 

 Scapaneus. 



b This genus contains much the largest of known woodpeckers. 



