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CLIMBING BIRDS — SCANSORES. 



1839,18-1; jil. 417. In. Birds Amcr. IV. 1842; jil. 2G9. — KtiTTAt.i., Man. I. 2(1 cd. 



1840, 692. — Aptaniis liirsatus, Bos \i'\RTE, List. — Picoides /liisuhis, Bmrd, Birds N. 



Amer. 18.'j8, 98. 

 ? Picus undulatus, Vieillot, Orn. Am. Sept. II. 1807, 09 (based on I'l. eiil. 553, a fictitious 



species ?). 

 Picus uniJatus, Tem.m. 



Picus unclosiis, Cuv. R. A. 1829, 457 (all based on same figure). 

 Tridactylia undulata, C.4BANIS and Heine, Mus. Ilein, IV. 2, 1863, 28. 

 Picus tridactylus, Swainson, Fauna Bor. Am. 1831, 311 ; pi. hi. 

 Picoides Americanus, Breum, Vii^el Ucutsclilands, -1831, 195. — Maliierbe, Mon. Picida;, 



L 176 ; pi. 17, 36. — Sclater, Catal. Gray, Cat. Br. Mus. IIL 3, 4, 1808, SO. — Apter- 



7nis Americanus, SwAlNSOK, Class. II. 1837, 306. — Picus Americanus, Sundevall, Consp. 



Av. Picin. 1866, 15. 



Var. dorsalis. Striped Ijack. 



Picoides dorsalis, Baird, Birds N. Amer. 1858, 100; pi. 85, f. 1. — Tridacti/Ila dorsulis, Ca- 

 BANis and Heine. — Picus dorsulis, Sundevall, Consp. 1866, 14. 



Sp. Char. Black .ibove ; the back with transverse bands of white to the runiji. A 

 white line from behind the eye, widening on the nape, and a broader one under the eye 

 from the loral region, but not extending on the forehead ; occiput and sides of head uni- 



form black. Quills, but not coverts, spotted on both webs with white, seen on inner webs 

 of inner secondaries. Under parts, including crissum, wliite ; the .-^ides, including a.xillars 

 and lining of wing, banded transversely with black. K.\])osed portion of outer three tail 

 feathers white; that of third much less, and sometinu's with a, narrow tiji of black. 



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