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or imperfectly barred. The Californian coast form, N. to Oregon, differing decidedly in some 

 respects, and constantly. Barring restricted to back proper; iiind neck black, succeeded ante- 

 riorly by a white space adjoining the red, wanting in scalaris, where red joins black. Red 

 chiefly confined to occiput ; rest of crown black, sprinkled with white. Lateral tail-feathers 

 white, not barred thn>ug]i()Ut, having but 1-.3 black bars, all beyond their middles, all but the 

 terminal one of these broken. White postocular stripe running into white nuchal area, but 

 cut off from white of shoulders. White maxillary stripe enclosed in black as in scalaris, but 

 tliis black continuous with the cervical black j)atch, which is not tlie case in scalaris. No 

 smoky-brown state of under parts observed. Picus scalaris nuttalli of all previous eds. of 

 Key, now raised to specific rank ; Driiohates nuttallii Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus. viii 1885 

 p. hiiH] A. O. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. .397. 



D. arizo'nae. (Lat. oi' Arizona.) ARIZONA Woodpeckkk. Entirely different from any of 

 the foregoing or following species. Adult ^: Upper parts dark brown, immaculate; toj) of 

 head, rump, and 4 middle tail-feathers darker; occiput with scarlet band. Sides of head with 

 white postocular and maxillary bands, expanded and more or less confluent on sides of neck. 

 Wiug-(piills like back, their outer webs with a few small white spots, inner webs with more 

 numerous larger white spots or broken bars. Outermost tail-feathers evenly barred through- 

 out with blackish-brown and white; intermediate feathers jtartly so banded, but mostly black- 

 ish. Entire under parts sordid whitish, thickly spotted with dusky; the markings few and 

 somewhat linear on throat, crowded and cordate on breast, wideuing and tending to become 

 bars (m lower belly, flanks, and crissum. Bill and feet blackish-plumbeous. Size of a small 

 rillostis; wing 4.50; tail 3.00; bill 1.12; tarsus 0.75; middle toe and claw 0.90. 9 similar: 

 no red on nape ; color of upper parts duller, and some feathers of middle of back barred with 

 white. Young: Like adults of the respective sexes; but top of head brown like back, and 

 spotted with red. A Mexican species, occurring in the mountains of S. W. New Mexico and 

 S. Arizona. Eggs 3 or more, indistinguishable from those of related species ; size about 

 0.84 X 0.02. P. stricMandi of the Key, 2d and 3d eds. 1884, 1887, p. 482, and Dnjohates 

 stricklundi of the A. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 188G, No. 398, but not the true P. stricklumli of 

 Malhf.rbe, Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 373, with which erroneously identified by Ridgw. Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. viii, 1885, p. 355; P. amo«« Hargitt, Ibis, Apr. 1880, .p. 115; Dnjohates ari- 

 some Ridgw. Man. 1887, p. 286; Coue.s, Key, 4th ed. 1890, p. 903; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 

 1895, No. 398; Dendrocopus arizonce IIargitt, Cat. Pic. Brit. Mus. 18!)0, p. 228, where 

 Malherbe's plate (pi. 28, 

 hi,'- 4. of l:is Monog. Pic.) 

 and dcscr. of the ad. ^ of 

 ]'. stricklandi is said to 

 have l)een taken from a 

 specimen of D. arizotuc in 

 the British Museum ; so 

 that our malidentification 

 was (piitc an easy mistake. 

 D. villo'siis. (Lat. vil- 

 lusKs, hairy, shaggy, vil- 

 lous. Figs. 398, 399.) 

 IIaikv Wgodi'Kckek. 

 (4ki;at (iriNEA Wood- 



I'KCKKR. Spotted and 



Irngthwisc streaked, but 



not banded. Usually 9-10 long; outer tail-feathers wholly white. Back black, with a long 



white stripe down the middle. Quills and tviug-corerts with a. pn>fusiou of white spots; usu- 



Fio. 309. — Hiury WiM).l|)cc-ki>r, iiat. Hize. (Aii. nut. drl. E. C.) 



