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and red of head more extended, covering more or less of crown, but 

 more broken, sometimes paler. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but head without any 

 red or with only a few red feathers on median portion of occiput." 



Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountams, from southern British 

 Columbia (Similkameen) southward through Washington, Oregon, 

 and California to Tej6n Mountains (Kern County) ; east to western 

 Idaho (Fort Sherman; Grangeville, near Mount Idaho) and western 

 Nevada (east slope of Sierra Nevada). 



Leuconerpes albolarvatus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, Oct., 1850, 106 

 (Oregon Canyon, near Georgetown, 12 miles from Sutter's Mill, Eldorado 

 Co., California; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.). 



[Leuconerpes] albolarvatus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 125 (Consp. 

 Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 10). 



Melanerpes albolarvatus Cassin, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, pt. iii, 

 Jan., 1853, 257, pi. 22. — Baird, in Rep. Stansbury's Surv. Gt. Salt Lake, 

 1853, 333 (California). — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Snrv., x, pt. iv, 

 no. 2, 1859, 59 (Sutter's Mill, California).— Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., X, pt. iv, 1859, 91 (Cascade Mts., Oregon). — Bridges, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1858, 3 (Trinity Valley, California).— Gray, List Birds Brit. 

 Mus., Picidae, 1868, 117. 



[Melanerpes] albolarvatus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 201, no. 8821. 



Picus (Xenopicus) albolarvatus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 p. xxviii. 



Picus albolarvatus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 96; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 81. — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, 

 pt. ii, 1860, 160 (Spokane R., Oregon).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1863, 202.— Lord, Proc. Roy. Artil. Inst. Woolwich, iv, 1864, 112 (Ft. 

 Cohdlle, Washington); Intellect. Observer, ix, 1866, 331-333, colored 

 plate.— Feilner, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1864 (1865), 425 (bet. Ft. 

 Crook and Shasta Butte, California; habits). — Sundevall, Consp. Av. 

 Picin., 1866, 29.— Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 382.— Coues, Check List, 1873, 

 no. 295. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 526, pi. 50, figs. 7, 8.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 

 259 (Tejon Mts., Mt. Whitney, and Walker Basin, California, breeding). — 

 Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 547 (Sierra Nevada, near Carson City). — 

 Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 129 (Blue Mts., Oregon; descr. 

 eggs).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 393, 428 (Calaveras Big 

 Trees, Murphys, Summit Meadows, and Soda Springs, California). — Brewer, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 56 (Placer Co., California; descr. nest 

 and eggs). 



[Picus] albolarvatus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 192. 



Xenopicus albolarvatus Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 221; iv, 1862, pi. 101, 

 figs. 3, 4.— Elliot, New and Unfig. Birds N. Am., i, 1869, pi. [24] and 

 text.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 6, 189; Nom. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 366.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 442.— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 399; 3d 



o In the series of young birds are three whose sex was determmed by the collector as 

 male, that correspond in small amount of red on the head to the young female, as 

 described above, and one marked female which is like normal young males; but I 

 suspect that the determination of sex is erroneous. 



