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Adult male.— Length, (skins), 165-180 (173); wing, 100.5-107.5 

 (102.7); tail, 61-67 (63.8); culmen, 19.5-22 (20.8); tarsus, 17.5-19 

 (18.4); outer anterior toe, 12-13.5 (12.8).*^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 161-182 (169); wing, 98-104.5 

 (101.9); tail, 59-67 (63.8); culmen, 18-21 (19.3); tarsus, 17.5-18.5 

 (17.9); outer anterior toe, 12-13 (12.4).« 



Upper Sonoran Zone in California (west of Sierra Nevada), 

 southwestern Oregon (Ashland), and northern Lower California (70 

 miles east of Ensenada?; Rancho Viejo, 15 mUes east of Alamo; San 

 Rafael?; San Pedro Martir Mountains). 



Picus nuttallii Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, April, 1843, 259 (Los Angeles 

 Co., California; coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.?). — Baird, in Rep. Stansbury'e 

 Surv. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 333 (California).— Woodhouse, in Rep. Sit- 

 greaves's Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 90 (California). — Newberry, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 89. — Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1863, 195 (crit.).— Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 19. 



Picus nuttalli Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 127 (San Jose Valley, 

 California); 1858, 3 (near Shasta, Calif.). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 93; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 41, fig. 2; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 78.— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Ft. 

 Tejon, California). — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 

 1859, 57 (valleys of California). — Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 100; iii, 

 1861, pi. 24, figs. 8, 9.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 49.— 

 Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 378. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 521, pi. 50, figs. 3, 6.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. 

 '^Tieeler's Surv., 1876, 258 (Santa Barbara, Ft. Tejon, Tejon Mts., and 

 Kemville, California; habits). — Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 547 

 (Sacramento Valley); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 189; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 364.— Belding, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 428 (Murphys, 

 Marysville, and Stockton, California). 



Picus (Dyctiopicus) nuttalli Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xx\iii. 



D[ictyopipo] nuttalli Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 75. 



[Dictyopipo] nuttalli Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 215 

 (Folsom and Auburn, California). 



[Picus scalaris.] Var. nuttallii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 193. 



Picus scalaris . . . var. nuttalli Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 297a. 



Picus scalaris nuttalli Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 435. 



P[icus] s[calaris] nuttalli Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 482. 



Dryobates nuttalli Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 355. — 

 Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 94 (Ventura Co., California). — Townsend (C. H.), 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 205 (Red Bluff, n. California).— Anthony, 

 Zoe, iv, 1893, 236 (San Pedro Martir Mts., Lower California, up to 4,000 

 ft.).— Grinnell (J.), Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., v, 1908, 62 (Seven Oaks, etc., 

 San Diego Co.; San Bernardino Mts., breeding). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 188.— Beal, Bull. 34, U. S. Biol. 

 Surv., 1910, 19 (food); Bull. 37, 1911, 24 (food). 



Dryobates nuttallii American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, (and 

 2d ed., 1895), no. 397.— Morcom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 41 

 (San Bernardino, California). — Gault, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 

 78-81 (range, habits, etc.).— (?) Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 



O' Ten specimens. 



