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CLlMBINfi BIRDS— SCANSORES. 



Head find neck all round pale dirty brown, or brownish-ash, darkest above. A small sub- 

 quadrate patch ol"re<l on the middle of the erown, separated from the bill by dirty wdiite. 

 Middle ' of the abdomen gamboge-yellow ; under tail coverts and anal region strongly 

 ban-ed with black. First and second outer tail feathers banded black and white, as is 



also the inner web of the inner tail feather; the outer web of the latter with a white 

 stripe. Length, about 9.50 to 10.00 ; wing, .5. .50. Iris red ; bill horn-black ; feet gray. 



Female with the head uniform lirownish-ash. without any red or yellow. 



Hah. Lower Colorado River of the West, and along the Gila. 



At Fort Mojave I found this woodpecker alnindaut in winter, when they 

 feil chiefly on the lierries of tlie mistletoe ( Fis«W)i), and were rather .shy. 

 I rarely saw them pecking at the trees, Imt they seemed to depend for a 

 living on catching insects, which were numerous on tlie foliage during the 

 spring. Tliey had a loud note of alarm, strikingly similar to that of Fhaino- 

 20vpla iiitiriis, which associated with them in the mistletoe houghs. 



Aljout ]VIarch 25th they were preparing their nests in burrows near the 

 dead tops of trees, none of those which I saw Leing accessible. By the 25th 



M. erylhrocephahi^ 



