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DRYOBATES SCALARIS SYMPLECTUS Oberholser. 



TEXAS WOODPECKER. 



Similar to D. s. scalaris but decidedly larger; white bars of back, 

 etc., broader, purer white; under parts decidedly paler, much less 

 buffy. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 154-180 (165); wing, 98-107 (102.2); 

 tail, 53.5-61 (57.1); exposed culmen, 20-24 (22.3); tarsus, 16-18.5 

 (17.6); outer anterior toe, 12-13.5 (12.6).° 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 152-173 (161); wing, 96.5-105 

 (100); tail, 52.5-60.5 (56.9); exposed culmen, 18-21 (20); tarsus, 

 16.5-18.5 (17.3); outer anterior toe, 11-13 (12.1).^ 



^Middle and northern Tamaulipas (Forlon; Villagran; Soto la 

 Marina; Mier; Camargo; Matamoras; Nuevo Laredo; Xicotencatl; Rio 

 Pilon; Victoria; San Fernando de Presas), Nuevo Leon (Rodriguez; 

 Santa Catarina; Monterey; Rancho San Juan; Boquillo) and north- 

 ern Coahuila (Sabinas) northward through southern, central, and 

 western Texas (east of Pecos River and, mostly, west of 97th merid- 

 ian) to southeastern Colorado (Pueblo, Baca, Otero, and Huerfano 

 counties). 



Picus scalaris (not of Wagler) Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 89 (San Antonio and e. of Pecos R., Texas). — Kennerly, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 3, 1859, 22, part (San Antonio). — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 94, part (Rio Grande and San Pedro, 

 Texas; Tamaulipas; Nuevo Leon); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 79, part; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 5, part, pi. 3 (Tamaulipas; 

 Nuevo Leon; Rio Grande and San Pedro, Texas). — Heermann, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., X, no. 1, 1859, 18, part (Texas); x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 57, part 

 (Texas).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 313, 468 (s. Texas).— Elliot, Illustr. New and 

 Unfig. N Am. Birds, i, 1869, 7, part.— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 379, part.- 

 CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 297, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 434, part.— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 515, part, pi. 50, figs. 

 4, 5.— McCauley, Rep. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 1877, 679 

 (McClellan and Mulberry creeks, etc.. Red River Valley, Texas). — Merrill, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 150 (Ft. Brown, Texas; descr. eggs).— Sennett, 

 Rep. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 38 (Browns\dlle and Hidalgo, 

 Texas); v, 1879, 415 (Lomita Ranch, Texas).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iii, 1880, 189, part; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 363, part.— Brown 

 (N. C), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 40 (Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas, 

 resident).— Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 170 (Houston, etc., 

 Texas). — Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc, iii, 1882, 58 (Navarro Co., 

 Texas, resident; habits). 



[Picus] scalaris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 192, part. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 99, part. 



Picus (Dyctiopicus) scalaris Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxviii, 

 part. 



"■ Nineteen specimens, from Texas (10), northern Tamaulipas (3), Nuevo Leon (5), 

 and Coahuila (1). 



6 Nineteen specimens, from Texas (10) and Tamaulipas (9). 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 17 



