192 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



a. Phlceotomus pileatus pileatus (LINN^US). Pileated Woodpecker. [405.] 

 Picus pileatus LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 113. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Austroriparian forests of southern United States from North 

 Carolina south and west to middle Texas and western Oklahoma ; casual in 

 the Bahamas. 



6. Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola (BANGS). Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 



[405a.] 



CeophloBus pileatus abieticola BANGS, Auk, XV, April, 1898, 176. (Green- 

 ville, Maine.) 



RANGE. 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 SWAINSON. 



Melanerpes SWAINSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 316. Type, 

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



Melanerpes erythrocephalus (LiNN^us). Red-headed Woodpecker. 

 [406.] 



Picus erythrocephalus LINNJSUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 113. (Caro- 

 lina.) 



RANGE. 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). 



RANGE. 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, 439. (Tem- 

 ascaltepec, Mexico.) 



RANGE. Transition and Upper Sonoran zones from northern Arizona, 

 northern New Mexico, and western Texas south through Mexico to Isthmus of 

 Tehuantepec. 



