BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 155 



wing-coverts, and proximal portion of inner webs of remiges immacu- 

 late white or very pale yellow; adult male with entire pileum (includ- 

 ing the conspicuous, pointed, occipital crest) and a broad malar 

 stripe bright red, the adult female with only the crest red, the fore- 

 head, crown, and malar region being grayish brown or olive. 

 Range. — North America. (Monotypic ?) " 



KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OP PHLCEOTOMUS PILEATUS. 



a. Smaller (wing averaging less tlian 230, culmen averaging lees than 50). 



h. Smaller (wing averaging 226.1 in male, 220.8 in female; culmen averaging 46.5 

 in male, 43.8 in female); coloration blacker or less slaty. (Middle and south- 

 ern Florida.) Phloeotomus pileatus floridanus (p. 159). 



hh. Larger (wing averaging 228.4 in male, 221.6 in female; culmen averaging 49.7 

 in male, 44.9 in female); coloration more slaty blackish. (Southeastern 

 United States, including northern Florida, north to Maryland, southern 

 Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, etc.) 



Phloeotomus pileatus pileatus (p. 155). 

 aa. Larger (wing averaging more than 230, culmen averaging more than 50). 



h. Larger (wing averaging 243.3 in male, 236.7 in female; culmen averaging 58 in 

 male, 52 in female; coloration more slaty (more so than in P. jp. pileatus); 

 whitish tips to longer primaries always well-developed. (Northern United 

 States, east of Rocky Mountains, north to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 



Kewatin, Mackenzie, etc Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola (p. 160). 



hh. Smaller (wing averaging 237 in male, 228.1 in female; culmen averaging 54.4 

 in male, 48.7 in female); coloration blacker or more sooty; whitish tips to 

 longer primaries usually much reduced in size, sometimes obsolete. (North- 

 west coast district, from British Columbia to northern California, east to 

 Idaho and northwestern Montana, and south to southern Sierra Nevada.) 



Phloeotomus pileatus picinus (p. 162). 



PHLOEOTOMUS PILEATUS PILEATUS (Linnaeus). 



PILEATED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum, including conspicuous occipital crest, bright 

 poppy red, somewhat darker (approachmg crimson) on forehead; a 

 rather narrow postocular stripe of yellowish white, and beneath 

 this a broad auricular stripe of slate color or brownish slate, involving 

 also suborbital region (narrowly) atid posterior portion of loral 

 region; upper portion of nasal tufts gra3dsh with terminal portion 

 of bristle-like feathers blackish, this connected with the slate color 

 of orbital region by a narrow line of dusky; lower portion of nasal 

 tufts dull pale yellowish; a sharply defined stripe along lower por- 

 tion of lores dull yellow (buff -yellow, maize yellow or naples yellow), 

 passing gradually into yellowish white or pale primrose yellow 

 posteriorly, where forming a broad band beneath the slaty auricu- 



o A South American (Argentine) species, Phloeotomus scAwZn' Cabanis (Campephilu^ 

 schulzi Sclater and Hudson, Campephilus pileatus var. schulzi Frenzel, Drijotomus 

 schulzi Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 517) has been referred to this genus. 

 I have not seen a specimen, but on geographical grounds alone strongly doubt that 

 it is congeneric with P. pileatus. 



