546 ORNITHOLOGY. 



Sierra Nevada eastward. It was equally common in the forests of Con- 

 iferaB and among the broad-leafed or deciduous trees. The notes and 

 habits are in all respects identical with those of its eastern representative. 



List of specimens. 



364, ? ad.; Triickee Keservation, December 19, 1867. 9y\-^15— .5— 4j\— 1^ — ] \ 

 — Z\ — 1^. Bill, slaty horn-color; iris, burnt-sieuua ; tarsi au(l toes, plumbeous gieeii. 



372, S ad.; Truckee Reservation, December 21, 1867. 9^— 16^— y/^ — 4/^. Bill, 

 greeuish-slate, darker terminally ; naked orbital region, similar, but paler; iris, reddish- 

 brown ; tarsi and toes, dark slaty-green. 



373, $ ad.; same locality and date. 9f — 16| — 5/^— 4|. Same remarks. 



438, $ ad.; Carson City, March 10, 1808. 91—15.^—5,; — 4J. Extent of tongue 

 beyond end of bill, 2^ inches; its corneous tip, pale plumbeous. 



1435, $juv.; Parley's Park, July 21, 1869. 10—17. Bill, dark slate; iris, burnt- 

 sienna; tarsi and toes, cinereous. 



1512, ? ad.; Parley's Park, August 10, 1809. 9^—17. 



Note. — The two latter specimens, besides being larger than those from western 

 Nevada, are also more spotted with white ou the wings, thereby showing an approach 

 to P. villosus. 



Pic US gairdneei. 



Gairdiier's TVoodpecker. 



Picus gairdneri, Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839,317. — Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 

 91; ed. 1800, pi. 85, figs. 2, 3; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 76.— Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 377. 



Picus pubescens var. gairdneri, CouES, Key, 1872, 194; Check List, 1873, No. 299a. 

 — B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, II, 1874, 512.— Henshaw, 1875, 388. 



Picus pubescens. b. gairdneri, Coues, Birds N.W., 1874, 282. 



We found this bird to be unaccountably rare in all portions of the 

 country, even where its larger cousin, P. harrisi, abounded; indeed, it was 

 seen at only two localities along the entire i-oute, a very few being found 

 in Se])tember among the thickets by one of the streams flowing from the 

 lofty Clover Mountains into the Upper Humboldt. At Parley's Park two 

 families of young were met with, on separate occasions, in July and August, 

 but we did not succeed in obtaining specimens. At the former locality they 

 were feeding on the fruit of Cratcegus rivularis, in company with many other 

 species of birds. In all respects, both as to habits and voice, this bird seems 

 to be a perfect counterpai-t of the Downy Woodpecker (P. pubescens) of 

 the East. 



