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Carson City. It was very rare throughout western Nevada, but became 

 abundant as we approached the liigher mountains in the eastern portion of 

 the State. Among the aspen groves in Parley's Park, as well as in similar 

 places throughout that portion of the country, it was by far the most abun- 

 dant of the Woodpeckers; and it seemed to be as strictly confined to the 

 aspens as S. thyroideus was to the pines. Its Tiest was almost invariably 

 in a living tree, into the soft wood of which it bored with the greatest ease, 

 the excavation being at nearly all heights between eight and thirty feet 

 from the ground, and almost invariably in the trunk of the tree. Both 

 parents incubate and feed the young. 



In its general manners, this species is quite a counterpart of the eastern 

 Red-throated AYoodpecker {S. varius), but its notes are quite appreciably 

 different, the whining utterance so characteristic of all the species of the 

 genus being less plaintive, while we heard other notes which we never knew 

 the eastern bird to utter. 



List of .s2)e<;ime)ts. 



4fl0, ? nd; Carson City, Neva<la, April 4, 1S08. Pines. SJ— 15J— SJ— 4^. Bill, 

 black ; iris, dark bister; tarsi and toes, olive-cinereous. 



9.ja, ? jiio.; Upper Humboldt Valley (Oainp 25), September 18, IS68. 8|— lu|— 

 (?) — i\. Bill, dark supia-slatc ; iris, dark bister; tarsi ami toes, olive-pluinbeous. 



1)38, ^ (III; Thousand Spring Valley (Camp '21), September -.3, 1808. 8§ — 15.J — 

 (?) — 4g. Bill, pure slaty-drab; iris, dark bister; tarsi aud toes, greeuisU olive-cinere- 

 ons. 



1355, i a,l.; Parley Park, Walisatch Mountains, Utab, July 1, 1809. 8|— ISj. 

 Bill, deep black ; iris, brown ; feet, greenish-ashy. 



1350, 9 ad.; Parley's Park, Walisatch Mountains, Utah, July 1, 1809. 8|— 10. 

 Same lemarks. [Stoinachs of both npicimcns tilled with ants.] 



1422, <? ad.; Parley's Park, July 17, 1809. 8|— 15^. Bill, purplish-black; iris, 

 brown ; tarsi and toes, slaty-olive. 



1429, ? ad.; Parley's Park, July 19, 1809. 8J— loj. Bill, black; iris, brown: 

 tarsi and toes, olivaceous blue. 



1430, (? ad.; Parley's Park, July 21, 1809. 8^— 15}. Bill, black; iris, umber; 

 tarsi and toes, dull light blue. 



1438, <J ad.; Parley's Park, July 22, 1809. 8— 15§. Bill, black; iris, brown; 

 legs and i'eet, olivaceousblne. 



1439, 9 ad.; Parley's Park, July 22, 1809. 8i— 15^. Same remarks. 



1440, ? (id.; Parley's Park, July 22, 18(19. 8— 14g. Same remarks. 



1448, Sad.; Parley's Park, July 23, 1809. 8J— 15. Bill, dark purplish-brown. 



