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394*. DOWNY WOODPECKER (E. S. Cheney del). 



regions of, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. He found these birds mated in. 

 Florida as early as January, and engaged in preparing a breeding place in February. 

 The nest, he states, is not unfrequently bored in a decayed stump. In Georgia and 

 other localities this bird excavates a nesting cavity in tall pine trees, living or dead. 

 The eggs range from three to four in number, rarely more, glossy-white; size .91x.68. 



396. TEXAN WOODPECKER. Dryobates scalaris vairdi (Malherbe). (Wagl.) 

 Geog. Dist. Southern border of the United States, from Texas to Arizona south into 

 Mexico. 



This bird is called the Ladder-backed Woodpecker, from the black and white 

 cross-bars on the back. It averages larger than the Downy, 7). pubescens. Dr. 

 Merrill found it a common resident in Southern Texas. He states that in its habits 

 it is so like the Downy Woodpecker that there is little to be said about it. He gives 

 the average size of eighteen eggs as .81x.64. 



396a. ST. LUCAS WOODPECKER. Drynhatcs sealant* lurasanu* Xantus. 

 Geog. Dist. Lower California north to lat. 34 in the Colorado Desert, California. 



There appears to be no written account concerning the nidification of this geo- 

 graphical race which is found in Lower California and the Colorado Desert in 

 California. 



397. NTTTTALL'S WOODPECKER. Dryolmtes nuttallii (Gamb.) Geog. 

 Dist. Southern Oregon, California and Northern Lower California. 



The habitat of Nuttall's Woodpecker is restricted to the limited area of the 

 State of California, Southern Oregon, and down into Northern Lower California. 

 It closely resembles the Texan Woodpecker, and may be easily recognized from the 



