PIOUS NUTTALLl-1'. ALlJOLAl^VATUS. 547 



TAst of specimens. 



925, <? arl; Upper nuinholdt Valley (Gamp 25, Doeiing's (hwk), Nevada Sep- 

 tember 12, 1SU8. 7-rj^-(.')-.Vfi. Jlill, pure .slate; iris, bunituiuber; tar.si aixl toes, 

 ocbraceous olive-greeu. 



935, i ad.; Upper Ilmiiboldt Valley (Camp 25, I )eering's Creek), Nevada, Sep. 

 tember 17, 18G8. Gg— 12J— (?)— ;Ji. 



PiCUS NUTTALLI. 

 iViitCillN M'ooilgivvkcr. 



Picm nvttalli, (Umukl, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbilad., I, 1843, 259.— Baiud, Bird.s N. 

 Am., 1858, 93; Oat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 78.— Coopkr, Oni. Oal., I, 187oi 

 378.— B. B. & R., lli.st. N. Am. Birds, II, 1874, .521, pi. l, (ig.s. 3,0. 



Picm scalar is var. nyttnlli, OoUKS, Key, 1872, 193; Olieck Li.st, 1873, No. 297a. 



Among the scattered oaks of the Sacramento ])lains we foiind thi.s 

 Woodpecker to be very common, but met with it nowhere else. It was 

 particularly abundant whore the oaks attained a large size, and formed 

 more extensive groves, nearer the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada. Its 

 manners were very much those of the Down)- Woodpeckers (P. jmbescens 

 and F. gairdneri), but the notes were entirely different, the usual one con- 

 sisting of a very prolonged rattling call, quite unlike that of any other 

 bird with which we are acquainted.^ 



Pious albolarvatus. 



Wiiitc-lic:><le<l \Voo<l|>(>rk(>r. 



Leuconerpes albolarvaUis, GASSllfS, Pr. Ae. Nat. Sci. I'liilad.. 1850, IV,I]. 



Ficiis alboliirvafus, Baird, Birds N. Am., jiS58, 9(»; Oat. N. Am. B., 18.59, No. 81. 

 — OOOPEK, Ori). Oal., I, 1870, 382.— OouES, Key, 1872, 192 ; Check Li.st, 1S73, 

 No. 295.— B. B. & B., Hist. N. Am. B., 11, 1S7J, 5-'(), pi. l, lij;.s. 7, 8. 



In I he dense forests of lofty and massive conifer* which cover the 

 slopes of the Sierra Nevada, this Woodpecker was found all the year round. 

 It was first met with in July, on the western slope, at an elevation of about 

 5,000 feet ; it was the most abundant Woodpecker of the locality, and was 

 almost constantly seen sporting about the tops of the tall dead pines, usually 



'In several localitiea in western Nevada we heard, on different occasions, similar 

 notes, but tlioy turned out to be those of one of the Pas.seres, and a .speeies which 

 we are not able to identity, unless it may bo Vhainopcpla nitons. (Sfee page 447.) 



