ORDER PICI 165 
407. Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi Ripcew. 
Californian Woodpecker. 
Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi Ripcw. Bull. No. 21 U.S. Nat. 
Mus. 1881, 34, 85. 
[B 95, C 310, R, 377, C 454.] 
Groc. Dist.— Pacific coast region of the United States, from 
southern Oregon south to northern Lower California and Mexico, 
east through Arizona to southern New Mexico and western Texas. 
407 a. Melanerpes formicivorus angustifrons Barrp. 
Narrow-fronted Woodpecker. 
Melanerpes formicivorus var. angustifrons BAIRD, Orn. Cal. I. 1870 
405. 
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[B Hine C 3104, R 3774; C455.] 
Groc. Dist.— Southern Lower California. 
SuBGENUS ASYNDESMUS Coves. 
Asyndesmus Cours, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1866, 55. Type, 
Picus torqguatus ILS. 
408. Melanerpes torquatus (WILs.). 
Lewis’s Woodpecker. 
Picus torquatus Witson, Am, Orn. III. 1811, 31, pl. xx. fig. 3. 
Melanerpes torquatus Bonar. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 40. 
(Big6)/G gua a6, Crane) | 
Geoc. Dist.— Western United States, from the Black Hills and the 
Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and from southern British Columbia 
and southern Alberta south to Arizona, and (in winter) western 
Texas. Casual in Kansas. 
SuBGENUS CENTURUS Swainson. 
Centurus Swatns. Classif. B. II. 1837, 310. Type, Prcus caro- 
linus LINN. 
