PICID^— THE WOODPECKEKS — PICOIDES. 



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Length, about 9.50 ; extent, 1G.5U ; wing. 5. -25. Male, with a narrow line of red on the nape 

 Hab. Cascade Mountains of Oregon, and southward into California. 



I fouiul tliis beautiful species quite common near the summits of tlie 

 Sierra Nevada, lat. 39°, in September, 18G.3, and obtained three specimens. 

 In 1860 I found it also common at Fort DaUes, Columbia Itiver, its cliief 

 range of distribution being between these two points, though I have also 

 found it as far north as Fort Colville, Washington Territory, near lat. 49°. 

 It is rather a silent l.)ird, and Uttle known. 



Genus PICOIDES, Lacep. 



Picoidcs, Lacep. Mora. Inst. 1799. 



Tridactijlia, Stephens, Shaw, Gen. Zool. 181.5. 



Ajiternus, SwAiNSON, Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 1S.3I, .311. 



Gen. C'hau. Bill about as long as the head, very much tlcpressed at the base ; the 

 outlines nearly straight ; the lateral ridge at its base much nearer the commissure than 



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