240 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 141-163 (152); wing, 88-95 (92.2); 

 tail, 51-60.5 (55.8); exposed culmen, 14.5-17 (15.5); tarsus,, 16-17 

 (16.2); outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.5).*^ 



Upper Austral and Transition zones of California, except on nortii- 

 west coast and southeastern desert mountains. 



Picas meridionalis (not of Swainson) Nuttall, Man. Om. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., 



i, 1840, 690 (California).— Gambel, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 55 



(California). — (?)Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, no. 2, 1859, 



57 (mts. of n. California). 

 PiciLS gairdneri (not of Audubon) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 91, part 



(Petaluma, Sacramento, and San Francisco, California). — Xantxjs, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Ft. Tej6n, California).— Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 



377 (chiefly). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii,1874, 



521 (Santa Cruz I., California, breeding; measurements of eggs). 

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



part. 

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

 Picus pubescens, var. gairdneri 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, llBO, 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 gairdnerii American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 



1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 394a, part.— Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 205 (Baird, Shasta Co., California, breeding). — Emerson, 



Bull. Calif. Ac. Sci., ii, 1887, 426 (Poway Valley, San Diego Co., California, 



breeding). — Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 47 (Tehachapi Pass, 



Grapevine Mts., and Panamint Mts., California, breeding). — Bendire, Life 



Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 58, part. — Grinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena 



Ac. Sci., 1898, 25 (Los Angeles Co., California). — Van Denburg, Proc. Ac. 



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

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

 Dryobates pubescens gairdneri Emerson, Auk, iii, 1886, 94 (Ventura Co., California, 



resident). — Mailliard, Condor, iii, 1901, 122 (San Benito Co., California, 



resident). 

 Picus pubescens, p. gairdneri Ridgway and Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 



March 2, 1879, 428 (Marysville, Murphys, and Big Trees, California). 

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

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



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 241, part (Monterey, Los Alamos, San Bernardino, 



Visalia, and Walker Basin, California). 

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



California). 

 Pidu turati Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 125, iii, 1861, pi. 29, figs. 5, 6, 7 (near 



Monterey, California; coll. Malherbe). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1863, 202 (crit.). 

 [Picus] turati Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 185, no. 8597. 

 P[icus] turati Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 18 (crit.). 

 D[ryobates] turatii Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 65 (Monterey, 



California). 



a Ten specimens. 



