138 nt'iD.E. 



1858, p. 2 ; Baird, B. Amei: 1858, p. 115 ; Cass. U. S. Rrpl. Exped. 

 1858, p. 242 ; Heerm. P. R. R. Rep. x. 185!), pt. vi. p. 58 ; Cooj^. ^ 

 Suck/. iV. H. Wash. Ter. 1860, p. 1(51 ; Blakist. Ibis, 1802, p. 3, 

 18(!8, p. 53 ; Cvues, op. cif. 18135, p. I(i2 ; (h-aif, List Picid. Brit. 

 Mux. p. lin (18(;8) ; id. lland-l. B. ii. p. 20l', no. 8818 (1870) ; 

 Coop. B. Calif, ed. Baird, 1870, p. 400 (head, figd.) ; Aike7i, 

 Pruc. Bost. Sor. 1872, p. 207 ; B. B. Sf R. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. 

 p. 501, pi. liv. fig. 5 S (1874); Hensh. U. S. Geogr. Surv. W. of 

 100th Merid. p. 397 (1875) ; Ridr/w. U. S. Geol. Evpl. 40th Par., 

 Orn. p. 553 (1877) ; Beld. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. i. pp. 3U1, 430 

 (1878) ; Ridr/ir. op. cit. 1880, p. 189, no. 370 ; Drew, Auk, 1885, 

 p. 17; Scott, op. cit. 1880, p. 427; A.O. U. Check-List, 1880, 

 p. 210, no. 408 ; Lloyd, Auk, 1887, p. 191 ; Ridyw. Man. N. Amer. 

 B. p. 291 (18S7). 



Melampicostorqiiatus, J/rt/A. i\'. Classif., Mem. Acad, ilfefc, 1848-49, 

 p. 305. 



INIelampicus torquatus, Malh. Picidte, ii. p. 214, pi. xcvi. figs. 1-5 

 (18(;2). 



Asvndesmus torquatus, Coues, Proc. Acad.Philad. 1800, p. 50; id. 

 Keij N. Amer. B. p. 197 (1872) ; id. B. N. West, p. 291 (1874) ; id. 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. Sure. 1878, iv. no. 3, p. 017 ; id. Check-Lkt N. 

 Amer. B. p. 79, no. 450 (1882); id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 

 p. 490, no. 456, figs. 342, 343 (1884). ' 



Adult male. Entire upper parts, wings, and tail dark bronze 

 green, tinged with steel-bhie ; shafts of quills and of rectrices black; 

 nasal plumes black ; forehead, lores, around the eye, including fore 

 ]>art of car-coverts, malar region, and chin, crimson; crown, occiput, 

 and nape, also posterior half of face and of ear-coverts, dark bronze 

 green ; side of the neck, fore neck, and chest, also a broad collar round 

 the hind neck, hoary white, the feathers having a hair-like appear- 

 ance, the neck and chest with a slight rosy tinge ; the feathers form- 

 ing the collar on the hind neck having the middle portion deep 

 black, those of the chest crossed by a narrow brownish-red band ; 

 underparts deep rose-red, inclining to crimson, varied with hoary 

 white, especi:illy on the breast, the white of the feathers having a 

 liair-like character, bases of the feathers dusky black ; under tail- 

 '■overts, also the under wing-coverts and axillaries, dark bronze 

 green. Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 6'65, tail 3-3, 

 tarsus 1 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"7i!, outer posterior 

 0'72, inner anterior 0"6, inner posterior 0"35. 



Adah female. Kesemblcs the adult male. Total length 9-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-37, wing 6-4, tail 3"45, tarsus 1. 



Voniir/. Differ from the adult in being duller and more dusky 

 brown on the head and neck, the former being only slightly red 

 anteriorly, with no trace of a white collar round the hind neck ; 

 the whole of the under surface of the bodj' smoky brown, the feathers 

 of the breast margined with dull white, the abdomen brick-red. 



Hah. Western United States from the Black Hills and the Kocky 

 ^fountains to the Pacific, extending north to Bow lliver and South- 

 ern part of British Columbia, about 51° N. lat., and south into Ari- 

 zona and Western Texas. 



