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P[iciis] gairdnerii Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 375. 



[Picus] gairdneri Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 184, no. 8591. 



Dryobates pubescens gairdnerii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, no. 23, 

 Sept. 2, 1885, 355; Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 596.— American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List (and 2d ed., 1895), 1886, no. 394a, part.— 

 Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 58, part. 



D[ryobates] pubescens gairdnerii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 283, part. 



[Trichopicus] gairdneri Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 123 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 8). 



Picus (Trichopicus) gairdneri Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxvii, 

 part. 



D[ryobates] gairdneri Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 64 (Oregon; 

 Washington). 



[Picus pubescens.] Var. gairdneri Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 194, part. 



Picu^ pubescens, var. gairdneri Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 456.— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 512, part. 



Picus pubescens gairdneri (not of Ridgway, 1875) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 188, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 361a, part.— Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 441, part. 



P[icus] p[ubescens] gairdneri Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 483, part. 



Dryobates pubescens gairdneri Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 165 (Washington Co., 

 Oregon). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 138 (Westminster, 

 Mt. Lehman, Kalama, and Vancouver I., Brit. Columbia; crit.).— Merriam, 

 North Am. Fauna, no. 16, 1899, 114 (Sisson, n. California).— Fisher (W. K.), 

 Condor, iv, 1902, 69 (diagnosis). — Anderson and Grinnell, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1903, 7 (Siskiyou Mts., n. California; crit.).— American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 187.— Swarth, Univ. Calif. 

 Pub. Zool., X, 1912, 34 (crit.). 



{Picus pubescens] b. gairdneri Covbs, Birds Northwest, 1874, 282, part. 



[Dendrocopus pubescens.] Subsp. a. Dendrocopus gairdneri Hargitt, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 241, part (Brit. Columbia; Vancouver I.; Walla 

 Walla, Columbia R., Albany, Umatilla Agency, and Dalles, Oregon). 



[Dendrocopus] gairdneri Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 214. 



P[icus] gardneri Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 435. 



Dryobates pubescens fumidus Maynard, Ornith. and Ool., xiv, no. 4, April, 1S89, 

 58 (s. Vancouver I., Brit. Columbia; coll. F. B. Webster). 



{?)Picus meridionalis (not of Swainson) Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 

 pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 57 (mts. of n. California). 



DRYOBATES NUTTALLU (Gambel). 



NUTTALL'S WOODPECKER. 



Adult male in autumn and winter. — Forehead and greater part of 

 crown black, more or less conspicuously streaked (except sometimes 

 on forehead) with white, the streaks of narrowly guttate or cuneate 

 form; extreme posterior portion of crown, occiput, nape, and upper 

 hindneck bright red (poppy red to scarlet vermilion), this color 

 separated, on each feather, from a dusky basal area by a small V- 

 shaped or sagittate spot of whitish; lower hindneck, upper back, 

 lesser wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts, and four middle rectrices uni- 

 form black; rest of back, together with scapulars and rump, broadly 

 barred with black and white, the bars of the two colors approximately 



