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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



SPHYRAPICCS VAItlUS (Linn.), var. NUCHALIS, Bd, 

 Red-naped IWoodpecker. 



,8))/(i/>v(7)(ciM nMc7ia?t«, Bd., Birds N. A., 1S.58, 921, i)l. 35.— IIknuy, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Pbila., 1859, 105 (New jMcxico). — CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 

 18GC, 53 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 4(>3. 



Sphyropicus nuchalis, Cooper, Bird.s Cal., i, 1870, .390. — Yarrow, Kep. Orn. Si)ecs., 

 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 36. 



Sphi/rnpicm varkts var. michalis, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 103 (in text). — Allen, Bid. 

 Mus. Cou)p. Zool., 1872, 180 (mountains of Colorado). — CouES, Key N. A. 

 Birds, 1872, 195.— Bd., Brew., & Eidg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 542, pi. 51, 

 Hg.s. 3, 4.— Allen, Proc. IJost. Soc. Nat. Hist, June, . lt-"74, 33.— CoUES, 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 280. 



.Siiliyropicus raritis var. nuclialis, YARROW & IlENSnAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheel- 

 er's Exped., 1874, 24.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 89, 133. 



Pinm rarius, Bd., Staus. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 320.- Heerm.. P. R. K. 

 Rep., X, pt. ii, 1859, 58. 



S2>h!/rapicuii rarius. Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 207. 



With all the habits and notes of the eastern Yellow-bellied Wood- 

 pecker, this variety is found throughout the Rocky Mountains, extending 

 on the west to the Sien-a Nevada, where it gives way to the var. ruber. It 

 everywhere shows a very marked preference for the deciduous timber, to 

 the avoidance of the pines, and is particularly numerous in the aspens, 

 among wliich it extends upward on the mountains as high as 12,000 feet, and 

 at whirh elevation it was observed by Dr. Rothrock in South Park, Colorado. 



In Southern Colorado, I found this and the succeeding species inhabiting 

 the same region in June ; yet the habits of the two were suflSciently distinct 

 as to draw a .'^harp line between the areas inhabited by either, and the two 

 ;il(])areiitly never encroaclicd on each other's domain, though I have often 



