284 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Sphyropicus] ruber Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 212, part. 



C[ladoscopus] ruber Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, 1863, heft 2, 82 



(California). 

 [Cladoscopus] ruber Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 215 



(California). 

 Sphyrapicus ruber ruber (not of Grinnell, 1909) American Ornithologists' 



Union, Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 191.— Willett, Pacific Coast Avifauna, 



no. 7, 1912, 56 (Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., breeding). 

 Sphyropicus varius var. ruber Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 456, 



footnote, part; v, Jan., 1873, 40, footnote, part.— Baird, Brewer, and 



Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 544, part.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. 



Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 259 (Tej6n Mts. and near Kernville, s. Cali- 

 fornia, breeding). 

 Sphyrapicus varius ruber Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 173, 174 



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



1881, no. 3696, part. 

 Sphyropicus varius ruber Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 448, part.— Mearns, 



Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 195 (Ft. Klamath, s. e. Oregon). 

 S[phyropicus] v[arius] ruber Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed, 1884, 486, part. 

 [Sphyrapicus varius] c. ruber Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 286, part (synonymy 



and range). 

 Sphyropicus varius, j9. ruber Ridgway, in Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 



March 21, 1879, 429 (Murphys and Big Trees, Calaveras Co., California). 

 Sphyrapicus varius daggetti Grinnell, Condor, iii, Jan., 1901, 12 (Pasadena, Los 



Angeles Co., California; coll. F. S. Daggett); Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 



1902, 38 (range); Univ. Calif. Pub. ZooL, v, 1908, 63 (San Bernardino Mts., 



7,000-8,500 ft.; habits; crit.).— Kellogg, Condor, xiii, 1911, 119 (Trinity 



and Shasta counties, California, in summer). 

 Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis (not S. nuchalis Baird) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, 84 



(San Clemente I., California, 1 spec, Oct. 11; see Willett, Pacific Coast 



Avifauna, no. 7, 1912, 56). 



SPHYRAPICUS RUBER NOTKENSIS (Suckow). 



NORTHERN RED-BREASTED SAPSTTCKER. 



Similar to S. r. ruber, but slightly larger and with coloration darker 

 and brighter; the red of head, neck, and chest averaging brighter, 

 and whitish spots on back usually smaller (sometimes obsolete). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 187-217 (203); wing, 123.5-133.5 

 (128.6); tail, 72-81.5 (78.9); cuhnen, 24-27 (25.3); tarsus, 20-22 

 (21.1); outer anterior toe, 15-16.5 (15.7)." 



Adult female.— Length (skms), 196-230 (209); wmg, 125.5-133 

 (130.5); tail, 78.5-85 (81.5); cuhnen, 23.5-27 (24.9); tarsus, 19.5- 

 21.5 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 15-17 (15.7).° 



Northwest coast district, breeding from western Oregon (Beaver- 

 ton; Point Grove; Portland ; Washmgton County) ; northward through 

 western Washington (Cowhtz; Okanogan County) and British 

 Columbia (includmg islands) to southern Alaska (Wrangel; Skagway; 

 Kupreanof, Kuiu, Prmce of Wales, Etolin, Wrangell, and Admiralty 



o Ten epecimens. 



