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islands; Chilkat River; Chickamin River); occasional southward in 

 winter as far as Monterey, California. 



Picus ruber notkensis Suckow, Anfangsgr. Naturg. Th., ii, i, 1800, 535 (Nootka 



Sound, Brit. Columbia; based on "Cook's last voy., ii, 297."). 

 Sphyrapicm ruber notkensis Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xv, April 25, 

 1902, 89 (crit. nomencl.).— American Ornithologists' Union Committee' 

 Auk, xix, 1902, 319; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 191.-Bowles, Auk, xxiiii 

 1906, 144 (Puyallup Valley, Washington, resident).— Edson, Auk, xxv, 1908| 

 434 (Bellingham Bay, Washington, resident).— Kermode, Prov. Mus Brit' 

 Col., 1909, 49 (Vancouver I.; ChUliwack). 

 Sphyrapicus ruber nootkensis Bowles, Condor, x, 1908, 130 (Puyallup Valley, 



Washington). 

 Picus flaviventris Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 67 (Nootka Sound); Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 95 (Nootka Sound).— Stephens, Shaw's Gen 

 Zool., ix, 1815, 161. 

 P[icus] flaviventris Bonnaterre and Vieillot, Enc. Meth., iii, 1823 1320. 

 Sphyrapicus ruber flaviventris Osgood, North Am. Fauna, no. 21, 'sept., 1901 

 45 (Queen Charlotte islands, Vancouver I., etc.; crit. nomencl.).— Rath- 

 bun, Auk, xix, 1902, 135 (Seattle, Washington, breeding). 

 Picus ruber (not of Gmelin) Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 179, part, pi. 416, 

 figs. 9, 10; Synopsis, 1839, 181, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 261 part^ 

 pi. 266.— Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 132, part; iii, 1861, pi. 31, figs! 

 1, 2.— Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 32, part (Nootka Sound). ' 

 Melanerpes ruber Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 39, part. 

 [Melanerpes] ruber Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 115, part. 

 [Pilumnus] ruber Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 123 (Consp Volucr Zv- 



god., 1854, 8), part. 

 Sphyrapicus ruber Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, pp. xxviii, 104, 

 part; Cat. N. Am. Bu-ds, 1859, no. 87, part.— Coues, Check List, 1873, no.' 

 303, part.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d'ed., 

 1895), no. 403, part.— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 165 (Washington Co., Oregon' 

 resident).— Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll., Alaska, 1887, 160 (Chilcat R*) — 

 Bendire, Auk, V, 1888, 229, part (geog. range; habits, etc.); Life Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 92, part.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 

 139 (coast Brit. Columbia).— Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col.', 1891, 28 

 (e. and w. side of Cascade range).— Dawson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 175 (Okanogan 

 Co., Washington, 1 spec.).— Bishop, North Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 78 

 (Skagway, Alaska). 

 [Sphyrapicus] ruber Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 195, part. 

 S[phyrapieus] ruber Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Bu-ds, 1887, 289, part. 

 Sphyrapicus ruber Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 236 (Vancouver I.).— 

 Brown, Ibis, 1868, 419 (Vancouver I.).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 392, 

 part.— Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 275 (Chilkat R., Alaska).— Har- 

 gitt. Cat. Ends Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 194, part ("Behring Straits"; Ft. 

 Rupert and Vancouver I., Brit. Columbia). 

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



Sphyrapicus 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. Bu-ds, ii, 1874, 544, part. 

 Sphyrapicus varius ruber Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 189, part; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 3696, part.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed.' 1882,' 

 no. 448— Grinnell (J.), Condor, iii, 1901, 12 (crit.; range); Pacific Coast 

 Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 38 (range).— Anderson and Grinnell, Proc. Ac. 



