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Ducks; Ashcroft) and Alberta; breeding southward to extreme 

 western Texas (Fort Davis), New Mexico (Zuni Mountains; Hondo 

 Canyon; Culebra Mountain; San Miguel County) and Arizona (Fort 

 Whipple), west to eastern Oregon (Warner Mountains; Blue Moun- 

 tains) and northeastern California (Hayden Hill, Lassen County), 

 east to Montana (Thompson Pass; St. Marys Lake; Weeksville; 

 Flathead . Lake ; Columbia Falls; Big Horn Mountains), Wyoming 

 (Bear Lodge; Sherman), western Kansas (near Wallace), etc.; in 

 migration southward over northwestern Mexico, in States of Chi- 

 huahua (Colonia Garcia; Colonia Pacheco; Chihuahua City; 30 miles 

 west of Minaca; Bustillos; Casa Colorado; Refugio; Temasochic; 

 Guerrero), Sonora (Rancheria de los Apaches; El Pinita; El Puerto; 

 Las Cuervas; Rio Bavispe), Durango (Cienega de las Vacas), Jalisco 

 (Sierra de Bolaiios), Coahuila (Rio Sabinas), and Lower California 

 (Laguna; Rio San Pedro; Santa Rosarita), casually to Guatemala 

 (Panajachel); sporadically westward during migration to western 

 Washington (mountains near Bellingham Bay), and California west 

 of Sierra Nevada (Alhambra, February; Baird, Shasta County, 

 November; San Geronimo, Marin County, 3 specimens; Palo Alto, 

 Santa Clara County, February; Los Angeles County, winter; San 

 Clemente Island). 



Picas varius (not of Linnaeus) Baird, in Stansburj/'s Surv. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 

 326 (New Mexico). — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 

 1859, 58 (Ft. Yuma). 



Sphyrapicus varius (not of Baird) Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 161, part. 



{'i)Spliyropicus varius Brown, Ibis, 1868, 419 (Vancouver I.). — Holden, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., XV, 1872, 207 (Sherman, Wyoming, breeding). 



[Sphyrapicus varius] Variety nuchalis Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 103, in text (Mimbres River, New Mexico; coU. Acad. Nat. Sci., PMla.). 



Sphyrapicus nuchalis Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, pp. xxviii, 921 

 (descr. specimens from Ft. Bridger and Laramie Peak, Wyoming; Ft. Thorn, 

 New Mexico); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 35, figs. 1, 2; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 86.— Cooper, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ii, 1863, 122 (Ft. Mojave).— 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 204 (crit.).— Coues, Ibis, 1865, 

 162 (Ft. Whipple, Arizona); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 53 (Ft. 

 Whipple, resident; crit.).— Ridgway, Field and Forest, i, 1877, 209 (Colo- 

 rado); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 549 (Carson City, upper Humboldt Valley, 

 and Thousand Spring Valley, Nevada; Parley's Park, Utah). 



Sphyrapicus nuchalis Baird, Ibis, 1867, 270.— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 390 

 (Ft. Mojave and Ft. Yuma; Rocky Mts., lat. 48°).— Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 51, figs. 3, 4.— Bendire, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 129 (Blue Mts., Oregon, breeding; descr. nest).— 

 Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 569 (Sierra Bolanos, Jalisco; 

 etc.).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 429 (localities 

 in Chihuahua; Sierra de Bolanos, Jalisco; Panajachel, Guatemala). 



[Sphyrapicus varius.] Var. nuchalis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 195. 



Sphyrapicus varius, var. nuchalis Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., v, Jan., 1873, 40; 

 Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 173 (Wahsatch Mts., Utah, 7,000-9,000 ft.).— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 542. 



