16. PICOIDES. 



283 



from the ej-e ; the black on the malar region spotted with white ; 

 from the chin to the under tail-coverts (both inclusive) white, more 

 or less pure, the black malar stripe extending on to the side of the 

 chest; the entire sides of the body, lianks, and thighs barred with 

 black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries barred black and white : 

 " iris brown ; bill and feet black " {Cooptr). Total length 9 inches, 

 culmen 1-5, wing 5-0-3, tail 3-35, tarsus 0"9o ; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 0-45, inner anterior 0*3, posterior 0-5. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the yellow 

 on the crown, the whole of the top of the head being blue-black. 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 4-95, tail 3'35, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Northern Xorth America from about 57^ N. lat. south to 

 the northern border of the United States, and, in the Western part of 

 the latter, extending along the mountain-ranges to the Sierra 

 Xevada, California, about 39° lat. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Canada. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Canada (C. Shelley). 



c. 5 ad. sk. Fort Simpson, Sept. 



d. e. cJ ad. ; f. British Columbia. 

 2 ad.sk.' 



ff. S ad. sk. St. Lawrence River, Cauada, 



Nov. (A. Lechevallier). 

 h. S ad. sk. Lake of the Woods, May 



(i?. Kennicott). 

 i,k. cJ ad.; /, Big Moose Lake, New York, 

 m. 2 ad. sk. June, Aug. {Hart Mer- 



riam). 

 n. (^ ad. ; 0, p. 7tli Lake, Hamilton Co., 

 2 ad. sk. X.Y., June (Hart Mcr- 



riam). 

 q. 2 ad. sk. Menomouee, Wisconsin, Oct. 



{Nelson). 

 r. S ad. sk. Fort Klamath, Oregon, April 



{C(tpt. Bendire). 

 s. 2 innn. .sk. Houev Lake, Nevada, June 



{H. Wheeler). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 B. E. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. K. Lord, Esq. 



Henshaw Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Henshaw Coll. 



[S.-G.J 



5. Picoides funebris. 



Picoides funebris, Verreatu; X. Arch. 3Ius. vi. Bull. 33. no. 2 (1870) ; 



op. cit. viii. pi. i. (1872) ; Ehves, 

 David 



id. op. cit. vii. p. 27 (1871) ; id. op. 



P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 601, 665, 689 ; Sclat. Ibis, 1874, p. 171 



^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 49 (1877). 



Male, i/ounr/. Above, including scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts brownish black, with a narrow and broken line of white 

 down the middle of the back ; wing- coverts uniform brownish 

 black ; quills brownish black, the primaries and some of the outer 

 secondaries spotted with white upon both webs, the former tipped 

 with white ; the inner secondaries having the outer webs uniform, 

 the inner webs spotted with white, and having near the tips of the 

 innermost a diagonal stripe of white upon each web ; shafts blackish 



