192 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
a. Phiceotomus pileatus pileatus (LinNazus). Pileated Woodpecker. [405.] 
Picus pileatus Linnamus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 113. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— Austroriparian forests of southern United States from North 
Carolina south and west to middle Texas and western Oklahoma; casual in 
the Bahamas. 
b. Phileotomus pileatus abieticola (BANas). Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 
[405a.] 
Ceophleus pileatus abieticola BANas, Auk, XV, April, 1898, 176. (Green- 
ville, Maine.) 
Rance.— Canadian and Transition zone forests of North America from 
northeastern British Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, 
central Quebec, and Newfoundland to the southern Sierra Nevada of Cali- 
fornia, northern New Mexico, and the southern Alleghenies. 
GENUS MELANERPES Swatnson. 
Melanerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 316. Type, 
by orig. desig., Picws erythrocephalus LINNmUs. 
Melanérpes erythrocéphalus (LinNamus). Red-headed Wocdpecker. 
[406.] 
Picus erythrocephalus LinNmvus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 113. (Caro- 
lina.) 
RancGE.— Transition and Austral zones from southeastern British 
Columbia, southern Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario south to the Gulf 
coast, and from central Montana, central Colorado, and central Texas 
east to valleys of the Hudson and Delaware; rare and local in New 
England; casual in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nova Scotia, and 
New Brunswick; irregularly migratory in the northern parts of its 
range. 
Melanerpes formicivorus (SWAINSON). 
Rance.— Western North America from Oregon and western Texas 
to Panama. 
a. Melanerpes formicivorus formicivorus (Swainson). Ant-eating Wood- 
pecker. [407.] 
Picus formicivorus Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, 1827, 489. (Tem- 
ascaltepec, Mexico.) 
Rance.— Transition and Upper Sonoran zones from northern Arizona, 
northern New Mexico, and western Texas south through Mexico to Isthmus of 
Tehuantepec. 
