BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 237 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 145-167 (156); wing, 94.5-103.5 

 (99.3); tail, 58-68 (62.3); exposed culmen, 16-18 (17.1); tarsus, 

 15.5-17 (16.5); outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.5).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 149-161 (158); wing, 95-105.5 

 (100.9); tail, 61-66.5 (63.9); exposed culmen, 15.5-18 (16.7); tarsus, 

 15.5-17 (16.2); outer anterior toe, 9.5-11 (10.3).« 



Transition and Canadian zones of western North America, from 

 southern British Columbia east of Cascade Mountains (Lake La 

 Hache; Vernon; Buonaparte; Caribou District; Pucks; Chilliwack; 

 Okanogan) and southward over Rocky Mountains and contiguous 

 ranges to mountains of New Mexico and Arizona (breeding) ; west to 

 middle Washington (Yakima, breeding; Okanogan County) and (at 

 least in fall and winter) mountains of eastern California (Quincy, 

 Plumas County, April; Piute Mountains ; Kernville; Jort Tejon) ; east 

 to eastern Montana (Fort Keogh, breeding) and western Nebraska. 



{?)Picus leucurus Hartlaub, Naumannia, ii, heft 2, 1852, 55 (Rocky Mts. ; ex 

 Paul von Wiirttemberg, manuscript). 



{?)P[icus] leucurus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 18. 



{?)[Trichopicus] leucurus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 123 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854,8). 



{?)D[ryobates] leucurus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, lieft 2, 1863, 65. 



Dryobates puhesccns leucurus Fisher (W. K.), Condor, iv, May, 1902, 69. — 

 Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 37 (California range). 



Picus gairdneri (not of Audubon) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 91, part (Laramie R. and Ft. Laramie, Wyoming). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 377, part (Rocky Mts).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 206 

 (e. Colorado, winter).— Ridgway, Field and Forest, ii, 1877, 209 ^Colorado) ; 

 Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 546 (upper Humboldt Valley, Nevada, and Parleys 

 Park, Utah). 



P[icus] gairdneri Coues, Ibis, 1865, 162, in text (Ft. Whipple, Arizona). 



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



Picus pubescens gairdneri Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 22, 34 

 (upper Humboldt Valley; Parleys Park); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 188, part; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 361a, part.— Drew, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 141 (San Juan Co., Colorado); Auk, ii, 1885, 17 (Colo- 

 rado, breeding at 4,500-11,500 ft.).— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 441, part. — Allen and Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 196 

 (Colorado Springs). — Beckham, Auk, ii, 1885, 143 (Pueblo, Colorado, May). — 

 (?)Merrill, Auk, v, 1888, 252 (Ft. Klamath, Oregon). 



Picus pubescens . . . var. gairdnerii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 299a, part. 



Picus pubescens . . . var. gairdneri Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 

 173 (Colorado).— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. WTieeler's Surv., 1874, 48 

 (Provo, Utah, Nov.), 89 (Ft. Garland, Colorado, breeding); Zool. Exp. 

 W. 100th Merid., 1875, 388 (Ft. Garland). 



[Picus pubescens] b. gairdneri Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 282, part. 



Picus pubescens, var. gairdneri Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 173 

 (Wahsatch Mts., Utah, 8,000 ft.). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 512, part.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 

 1874, 63 (Missouri and Musselshell rivers, Montana). — Henshaw, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., xi, 1874, 9 (Wahsatch Mts. and Provo, Utah).— Scott, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 95 (Lake Co., Colorado, June). 



o Ten specimens. 



