190 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



RANGE. Boreal forests from central Ungava to northern Minnesota, south- 

 ern Ontario, northern New York, Maine, and New Hampshire; casual in 

 winter to Massachusetts. 



b. Picoides americanus fasciatus BAIRD. Alaska Three-toed Woodpecker. 



[401 a.] 



Picoides americanus var. fasciatus BAIRD, in COOPER, Geol. Surv. Calif., 

 Orn., I, 1870, 385. (Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River.) 



RANGE. Hudsonian and Canadian zones in Alaska, Mackenzie, and 

 Keewatin south to southern British Columbia, southern Alberta, and south- 

 western Keewatin. 



c. Picoides americanus dorsalis BAIRD. Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker. 



[4016.] 



Picoides dorsalis BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 100. 

 (Laramie Peak, Wyoming.) 



RANGE. Boreal forests of Rocky Mountains region from Montana and 

 Idaho to high mountains of Arizona and New Mexico. 



GENUS SPHYRAPICUS BAIRD. 



Sphyrapicus BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 101. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Picus varius LINN^US. 



Sphyrapicus varius (LiNN^us). 



RANGE. Northern North America from near tree limit south, in 

 winter, to Central America. 



a. Sphyrapicus varius varius (LINNJSUS). Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. [402.] 

 Picus varius LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 176. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds in Canadian and upper part of 

 Alleghanian Zone from southwestern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, central 

 Quebec, and Cape Breton Island south to central Alberta, northern Missouri, 

 northern Indiana, northern Ohio, North Carolina (mountains), and Massa- 

 chusetts (mountains of northern Berkshire County); winters from Penn- 

 sylvania and Ohio Valley (casually further north) to the Gulf coast, Bahamas, 

 Cuba, western Mexico (Jalisco), and Costa Rica; casual in Wyoming. 



b. Sphyrapicus varius nuchdlis BAIRD. Red-naped Sapsucker. [402o] 



Sphyrapicus varius var. nuchalis BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., 

 IX, 1858, 103. (Mimbres River, New Mexico.) 



