I20 Eighth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. \^^ 



[B /^^,part, C 317^^, R \o^b^ part., C 464.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Southern California (exact range not known). 



394c. Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swains.). 



Downy Woodpecker. 



Picus (^Dendrocopus) medianus Swains, in Swains. & Rich. 



Faun. Bor.-Am. II, 183 1, 308. 

 Dryobates pubescens tnediamis Brewster, Auk, Jan. 1897,82. 

 [B ']6.ipart, C 2()().i part, R t,6i, part, C 440, /ar/.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Middle and northern parts of eastern United 

 States and northward. 



No. 394, Dryobates pubescens, the Southern Downy Wood- 

 pecker, thus becomes restricted to the South Atlantic and Gulf 

 States, from South Carolina to Florida and Texas. {Cf. Brew- 

 ster, /. c.) 



394c?. Dryobates pubescens nelsoni Oberholser. 



Nelson's Downy Woodpecker. 



Dryobates pubescens nelsoni Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. XVIII, 1895, 549. 



[B ']6,part, C 2()(), part, R 7,61, part, C 440, /ar/ .J 

 Geog. Dist. — Alaska and northern British America. 



407. Melanerpes formicivorus (Swains.). 

 Ant-eating Woodpecker. 



Picus formicivorus Swains. Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 439. 

 Melanerpes formicivorus Bonap. Consp. Av. I, 1850, 115. 

 [B ()c,,part, C T,\o, part, 'K^']'], part, C 454, /^r/.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Western Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, 

 thence southward over the tablelands of Mexico. 



(The numeration of Nos. 407 and 407^/ hereby becomes changed 

 t0 407« and 407^^ respectively.) 



414a. Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens Anthony. 



Brown Flicker. 



Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens Anthony, Auk, XII, Oct. 

 1895,347- 



