riCUS NUTTALLI— 1'. ALBOLAUVATUS. 547 



List of specimens. 



925, S ad-; Upper Uiimboklt Valley (Camp I'o, Deeriug's Cieek), Nevada, Sep- 

 tember 12, 18GS. 7— I'Ji— CO— "'fg. Bill, i)iire slate; iris, hunitiiruhcr ; tarsi and toes, 

 ocbraceous olive-greeu. 



935, $ ad.; Upper Humboldt Valley (Camp 25, Deeriiig's Creek), Nevada, Sep- 

 tember 17, 18G8. 6J— 12i— (?)— 3*. 



PjCUS NUTTALLI. 

 niiitlallS Wooilpccker. 



Picus nuttalli, Gambel, Tr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbilad., I, 1843, 259.— Baikd, Birds N. 

 Am., 1858, 93; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 78.— Cooper, Oni. Cal., I, 1870, 

 378.— B. B. & i;., Hist. N. Aai. Birds, 11, 1874, 521, pi. L, figs. 3, 0. 



PicKs smlaris var. nultnJIi, ( 'ouf.s, Key, 1S72, 193; Cbeck List, 1873, No. 297a. 



Among- the scatkMNtd oaks of tlu; Sarramonto ])laiiis \\c fWuiul tliis 

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

 particularly abundant where 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 Downy Woodpeckers (P. puhescens 

 and P. gairdmri), 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.^ 



PiCUS ALBOLARVATUS. 

 White-headed Woodpecker. 



Leuconcrpes albolaroatus, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbilad.. l.s.jo, KKi. 



Picus albolarvatvs, Baird, Birds N. Am., j858, 90; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 81. 

 — COOPEB, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 382.— Coues, Key, 1872, 192 ; Cbeck List, 1873, 

 No. 295.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 52(i, pi. l, figs. 7, 8. 



Ill fhe dense forests of lofty and massive conifei-.-c wJiich (-over the 

 slopes of llie Sierra Nevada, this Woodpecker was found all the \ear 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 



'lu several localities in western Nevada we heard, on different occasions, similar 

 notes, but they turned out to be those of one of the Passeres, and a species which 

 we are not able to identify, unless it may be Phdnopepla nitens. (See page 447.) 



