550 ORNITHOLOGY. 



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

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

 the State. Among the aspen gTOves 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. thijroideus was to the pines. Its nest 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 Woodpecker (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 si)ecimeiis. 



490, ? ad.; Carson City, Nevada, April 4, 1808. Pines. S3_15J_5J— 4=|. Bill, 

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



9.30, ? jiic; Upper Humboldt Valley (Camp 135), September 18, 18G8. 8|— 15§— 

 (?) — 4^. Bill, dark sepiaslate; iris, dark bi.ster; tarsi and toes, olive-plumbeous. 



938, $ ad.; Thousand Spring Valley (Ganii) L>7), September 23, 18G8. 8§— 15J— 

 (?) — 4f. Bill, pure slaty-drab; iris, dark bister; tarsi and toes, greeuisL olive-cinere- 

 ous. 



1355, $ ad.; Parley Park, Walisatch Mountains, Utab, July 1, 1809. 8g— 15a. 

 Bill, deep black ; iris, brown ; feet, srecnishashy. 



1350, ? ad.; Parley's Park, Wahsatcli Mountains, Utah, July 1, 1809. S§_16. 

 Same lemarks. [Stomachs of both specimens filled with ants.] 



1422, $ ad.; Parley's Park, July 17, 1809. 

 brown ; tarsi and toes, .slaty-olive. 



1429, ? ad.; Parley's Park, July 19, 1809. 

 tarsi and toes, olivaceous-blue. 



1430, <? ad.; Parley's Park, July 21, 1809. 

 tarsi and toes, dull light blue. 



1438, i ad.; Parley's Park, July 22, 1809. 

 legs and feet, olivaceous-blue. 



1439, ? ad.; Parley's Park, July 22, 1809. S.J— ISJ. Same remarks. 



1440, 9 ((d.; Parley's Paik, July 22, 1809. 8— 14§. Same remarks. 



1448, <? ad.; Parley's Park, July 23, 1869. 8J— 15. Bill, dark purplish-brown. 



