PICID.E — THE WOODPECKERS. .jJQ 



of the late Dr. Berlandier of ^latanioras, in the province of Taniaulipiis, 

 Mexico. 



Dr. Cooper states tliat this Woodpecker is ahundant in the Colorado Val- 

 ley, and that thev are sometimes seen on the buslies coveriiii; the nei<j:hb(»i- 

 iii^j; mountains. In habits he regards them tlie exact counterpart ot 7^. nut- 

 tall i, to wliicli they are allied. 



Mr. Dresser found them resident and very common tlirouLjliout all Texas 

 and Xortheastern Mexico. It breeds abundantly about San Antonio, borin^j; 

 into any tree it finds most suitable for its purposes. 



Dr. Cones regards Fort Whi]»ple as about the northern limit of this species 

 in Arizona. It is not very common, is only a summer resident, and Itreeds 

 sparingly there. Farther south, throughout the Territory, and in the Col- 

 orado Valley, he found it abundant. It does not cross the Colorado Desert 

 into California, and is there replaced by P. nuttalli It extends south into 

 Central America. A bird shot l)y Dr. Cones, June 5, appeared to be incu- 

 bating ; young birds were taken just fledged July 10. The nest was in the 

 top of a live-oaiv tree. Malherbe, who speaks of this Woodpecker as ex- 

 clusively Mexicuii, states that he has been informed that it is abundant in 

 that country, where it may be seen at all times, climbing over the trunks 

 and branches of trees. It is said to be very familiar and unwary, living com- 

 monly in gardens and orchards through the greater part of the year, and 

 many of them nesting there, though in regard to their manner of nesting he 

 has no information. 



Tlie egg of this Woodpecker in shape is most similar to the P. villosics, 

 being of an oblong-oval. It is larger than the puhcscens, antl not of so clear 

 a white color. It measures exactly one inch in length by .75 of an inch in 

 breadth. 



Ficus scalaris, var. lucasanus, Xantus. 



THE CAFE WOODPECKEB. 



Picus lucasanm, Xaxtus, Pr. A. N. S. 1859, 298, 302. — Malheube, Mon. Picidse, I, 

 1G6. — Cassix, Pr. A. N. S. 1863, 195. — CourEii, Orn. Cal. I, 187n, 381. 



Sp. Char. General appearance that of Picus nnttaJU and scalaris. Bill stout, as lon<j- 

 as or lonjrer than the head. Above black, banded transversely with white on the back 

 and scapulars to the nape, the white narrower band, the rump and inner tail-feathers en- 

 tirely black ; quills with a row of white spots on each web ; the outer sfiuare, the inner 

 rounded, these spots on the tertials becoming transversely quadrangular. Beneath brown- 

 ish-white, with rounded black spots on the sides of the breast, passing behind on the flanks 

 and under tail-coverts into transverse bars. Greater inner wing-coverts transversely 

 barred. Outer two tail-feathers white, with one, sometimes two terminal l)ars. next to 

 which are one or two bars on the inner web only ; third feather black, the outer Aveb 

 mostly white, with traces of a terminal black bar; sometimes there is a greater pri'- 

 dominance of black on the inner web. Two white stripes on side of head, one starting 

 above, the other below the eye, with a tendency to meet behind and form a wliitish 



