114 U S P. R. R EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catal.| Sex Locality. When col- | Whence obtained. | Orig. Collected by— Length.) Stretch | Wing. Remarks. 
No. lected. of wings.) 
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2108 | © | Carlisle, Pa.....-....e00 April 15, 1845 | 
EG) boop dole, cece Mees eece|||Decs 13,1842 
5e9 | 1) eoeees GO. s-cecenesesees-| FED. 12, 1842 
1018 | 9 © leesas HO. Shona sono nAOd May 24, 1843 pace sta 
c PTS he oa sne \ Calcasieu, La. cood) WER Sas singo G. Wiirdemann..... 
7051 (2) Step LOwIsMOleeatsite siete May 8, 1857] Lieut. Bryan...... 
8326 Jesse eeee Independence, Mo....... June 3,1857| W. M. Magraw .... 
5610| G | Fort Riley, K.T. ........| June 19, 1856 | Lieut. Bryan....... 
6612) OM iesets AD eiassresetere see] (FUN CWE pL SOG) ateistp jos Ostcele slaisiietela 
5614 @ legos CO veheerce levie nists ee-.| June 20, 1856 |...... dO. c.cccveeee 
GBD || 4 |fed0000 doer cee sess +. | June 13, 1856 |...... Of seacaceeoe 
5616 June 20, 1856 }...... GOs sia: sjacieleinaies 
6549 L8STeccccc cece Dr. Tammond..... 
DESIR  Percierevereis||lstelorslniviClOlelleletetele\sdofelsisleleve/eistl| (elelels}erslelsieiatels es Dr. Hammond and 
J. X. de Vesey.. 
5229 May 31, 1856 Lieut. Warren,.... 
_ 5408 July 1, 1857 
4625 April 23, 1856 
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4628 dO. vee. 
4629 : o09||sanoc00(: 
4630) | LOD || sar ser GO) seanoso ogaccacadc dO: racy) 03 
5230 3 | Above Yellowstone R., N.T y 25, 1856].. 
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6036 | | Milkriver,N.T. ........ Aug. 25, 1853 
6037 QO Jeevees dO. covecvecccerevesleseves dO’ 000. | 2000+ GOs evnvicccees|coeree| roves dO. cecciencecs|cecs cscs ees eces|eeee 
5617 Q Black Hills, N.T.....000. Aug. . 3, 1856 We Se WO0Gd so cien x || 000s s000] sees vsen|seccieae 
5618 6 | North Platte river........ Aug. 12, 1856 sseeeveee «| 20S |reeees see eceeeeeel eee sees levee eerlesees tes| weceesseeeeeeees 
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MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS, Bonap. 
California Woodpecker. 
Picus formicivorus, Swainson, Birds Mex. in Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 439, (Mexico.)—Vicors, Zool. Blossom, 1839, 23, 
(Monterey.)—Nurratt, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840. 
Melanerpes formicivorus, Br. Conspectus, 1850, 115.—Herermann, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. 2d series, II, 1853, 270.— 
Cassin, Illust. IT, 1853, 11; pl. iii—-Newserry, Zool. Cal. & Oregon Route, 90; P. R. 
R. Sury. VI, 1857. 
Picus melanopogon, Temminck, Pl. Color. 1V, (1829?) pl. 451 —Waater, Isis, 1829, v, 515. 
? Melampicus flavigula, MaLnerse, Rey. et Mag. Zool. 1849, 542. 
Sr. Cu.—Fourth quill longest, third a little shorter. Above and on the anterior half of the body glossy bluish or greenish 
black ; the top of the head and a short occipital crest red. A white patch on the forehead, connected with a broad crescentic 
collar on the upper part of the neck by a narrow isthmus, white tinged with sulphur yellow. Belly, rump, bases of primaries, 
and inner edges of the outer quills, white. ‘T'ail feathers uniform black. 
Yemale with the red confined to the occipital crest, the rest replaced by greenish black ; the three patches white, black, and 
red, very sharply defined. Length about 9 inches; wing about 5. 
Jlab.—Coast region of California and south ; in northern Mexico, eastward almost to the Gulf of Mexico ; also on Upper Rio 
Grande. 
In most specimens one or two red feathers may be detected in the black of the breast just 
behind the sulphur yellow crescent. The white of the breast is streaked with black; the 
posterior portion of the black of the breast‘and anterior belly streaked with white. The white 
of the wing only shows externally as a patch at the base of the primaries, 
