BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 245 



2, 1889, 286 (San Rafael and Ensenada, Lower California, up to 3,500 



ft.).''— Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 47 (Cajon Pass, San 



Bernardino Mts., Old Ft. Tejon, Walker Basin, etc.). — Bendire, Life Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 65. — Mailliard, Auk, xv, 1898, 196 (San Geronimo, 



Marin Co., California and 30 m. northward). — Van Denburg, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., xxxviii, 1899, 162 (Mt. Hamilton, Santa Clara Co., breeding). 

 D[ryobates] nuttallii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 285. 

 Dendrocopus nuttalli Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 244 (Ashland, 



Oregon; localities in California). 

 [Dendrocopii^] nuttalli Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 215. 

 Picus scalaris (not of Wagler) Gambel, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 55, 



pi. 9, figs. 2, 3 (California). 

 Picus wilsonii Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., Nov., 1849, 529 (Monterey, 



California; coll. A. Malherbe?;=adult male). 

 P[icus] wilsoni Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 138. 

 P[icus] wilsonii Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinae, 1854, 375. 

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



Zygod.,1854, 8). 



DRYOBATES SCALARIS SCALARIS (Wagler). 



ORIZABA WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum, superficially, bright red (poppy red or ver- 

 mUion), the feathers dark grayish sooty basally, and with a white 

 spot in middle portion, the red tips gradually increasing in length 

 toward the nape, so that the white spots are concealed posteriorly, 

 but exposed on the crown, where also the basal dusky shows, more or 

 less; forehead with very little, if any, red, passing into brownish 

 (more or less dark) anteriorly; hindneck, back, scapulars, and rump 

 broadly, sharply, and regularly barred with black and white, the black 

 bars narrower than the white, and less distinct on rump ; shorter upper 

 taU-coverts black, usually with a white subapical spot or bar; longer 

 upper tail-coverts and four middle rectrices uniform black; lateral 

 (developed) pair of rectrices dull or brownish white, crossed by about 

 six broad bars of black, those on basal portion of outer web usually 

 reduced to spots next to shaft; next (third) pair similar, but with 

 about basal half of inner web uniform black; fourth pair black, with 

 broad white spots, or broadly and irregularly edged with white, on 

 about terminal half of outer web, the inner web sometimes with one to 

 three white spots on terminal portion ; wings black, the middle coverts 

 with a central or subapical, usually cordate, spot of white, the lesser 

 coverts (at least the posterior ones) with a smaller and more rounded 

 white central spot, the greater coverts crossed by two transverse 

 series, or bands, of white spots, the secondaries with six similar white 

 bands, the first (subbasal one) concealed by greater coverts, the pri- 

 maries similarly marked; nasal tufts dull brownish white to pale 

 brown ; a broad supraauricular stripe of brownish white or pale dull 

 brownish buffy ; a broad subauricular stripe of the same color, extend- 



o According to Anthony (Zoe, iv, 1893, 236) this may be D. scalaris eremicus. 



