11. ASYNDESMrS. 137 



«'. 2 «cl- sk. Takchan Creek, Feb. 8, 1874 Hume Coll. 



( Tf. Davis(m). 

 .1: (S ad. sk. Thounoyali, Nov. 19, 1878 (J. Hume Coll. 



Dar/mff) . 

 y. 2 iiiim. sk. Kossoum, July 22, 1879 (/. Hume Coll. 



Darlinff). 



11. ASYNDESMUS. 



Type. 



Asyudesmus, Cmes, Proc. Acad, ridlad. 18GG, p. 66. A. torquatus. 

 a b 







a. Bociy-feather of Asyndesmus torquatus (enlarged). 



b. Body-feather of Dendrocopus major (enlarged). 



Range. Western Tnited States from the Black Hills and the 

 Eocky MountaiDS, north to the southern part of Kritish Cohimbia 

 and the Bow Eiver about 61'^ X. lat., south into Arizona and west- 

 ern Texas. 



1. Asyndesmus torquatus. 



ricus torquatus, Wils. Am. Om. iii. p. 31 , pi. xx. fig-. ','> (1811) ; Vietll. 



N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 80 (1818) ; id. ^- Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. 



p. 1310 (1823) ; Valenc. Diet. 8c. Nat. xl. p. 177 (1826) ; Wayl. 



Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 82 (1827) ; Dvap. Diet, Class, xiii. p. 497 



(i828); Bp. Syn. Bds. II. S. 1828, p. 46; Nidt. Man. Om. i. 



p. 577 (1832) ; And. B. Amer. pi. ccccxvi figs. 7 J r.d., 8 $ (1835- 



38) ; id. Om. Biuyr. v. p. 170 (1839) ; id. Syn. 1839, p. 184 ; id. B. 



Awe): 8vo, iv. p. 280, pi. cclxxii. figs. 1, 2 (1842) ; Sundev. Consp. 



Av. Picin. p. 51 (1800). 

 Picus montanus, Ordiu Guthrie s Geoyr. Am. 2nd ed. 1815, ii. p. 310. 

 jyielanerpes torquatus, Jard. ed. Tt^ils. Amer. Om. i. p. 321, pi. xx 



fig-. 3 (1832); Simins. Classif. B. ii. y>. SlO (1837); Bp. Camp 



List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 40, no. 263 (1838) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 444 (1840); Gamb. Jcurn. Acad. Philad. 1847, p. 56 ; Bp. 



Consp. Geti. Av.i.-^. 115 (1850); Heerm. Journ. Acad. Philad. 



1853, p. 270; Beichtnb. Scans. Picince, p. .381, no. 881, pi. dcxlii. 



tigs. 4282-83 (1854) ; Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zyr/od. p. 10, no. 206 



(1854); Newb. P. R. R. ^ep. vi. p. 90 (1857)"; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



