164 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
[B 88, 89, C 304, 305, R 370, C 449.] 
Groc. Dist.— Rocky Mountain region of the United States, west 
to the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and northern Coast Ranges; south 
on the tablelands of Mexico to the Sierra Bolanos, Jalisco. 
Genus CHOPHLGWUS Capsanis. 
Ceophiwus CaBants, J. f. O. 1862, 176. Type, Pecus pileatus 
LINN. 
405. Ceophloeus pileatus (LINN.). 
Pileated Woodpecker. 
Picus pileatus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 113. 
C[eophleus| pileatus CaBants, J. f. O. 1862, 176. 
[Bige, Ci 2oa (R37 0) age. 
Groc. Dist.— Formerly the heavily wooded region of North 
America south of about Lat. 63°, except in the southern Rocky 
Mountains; now rare or extirpated in the more thickly settled parts 
of the Eastern States. 
Genus MELANERPES Swainson. 
SuBGENUS MELANERPES. 
Melanerpes Swatns. in Sw. & Ricu. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 1831, 316. 
Type, Picus erythrocephalus LINN. 
406. Melanerpes erythrocephalus (LInv.). 
Red-headed Woodpecker. 
Picus erythrocephalus Linn. 5. N.ed. 10, I. 1758, 113. 
Melanerpes erythrocephalus Swatns. in Sw. & Ricu. Fauna Bor. 
Am. II. 1831, 316. 
[B 94, C 309, R 375, C 453-] 
Geoc. Dist.— United States, west to the Rocky Mountains, and 
north from Florida to about Lat. 50°, straggling westward to Salt Lake 
Valley and Arizona; rare or local east of the Hudson River. 
