286 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



spotted or broadly streaked with dark brown. Hob. South- 

 eastern Mexico (Jalapa, etc.). 



D. Strickland! (MALH.). Strickland's Woodpecker. 1 



a*. Back without any white. Upper parts plain brown or light sepia, the quills, 

 also inner webs of secondaries, spotted with white; whole breast and sides 

 spotted with dark brown, the flanks and under tail-coverts barred or trans- 

 versely spotted with the same. Adult males with a rather narrow occipital 

 band of red, as in D. villosus and D. pubescens ; young males with nearly 

 whole top of head red. 



b\ Larger: Length 7.40-8.40, wing 4.40-4.65 (4.49), tail 2.55-2.95 (2.81), exposed 

 culmen .90-1.05 (.98). Hob. Southern Arizona and adjacent portion of 

 northwestern Mexico. 



398. D. arizonse (HARGITT). Arizona Woodpecker. 1 



V. Smaller: Length 6.25, wing 4.10, tail 2.60, exposed culmen .78. Hab. South- 

 western Mexico (Sierra Madre of Colima). 



D. arizonae fraterculus RIDGW. Colima Woodpecker. 3 



GENUS XENOPICUS BAIRD. (Page 280, pi. LXXXIY., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Adult male : Head, neck (except hinder part), upper part of chest, and basal 

 portion of quills white ; occiput with a transverse patch or broad band of bright 

 red ; rest of plumage uniform black. Adult female : Similar to the male, but with- 

 out any red on head. Young male : Similar to adult, but black of a duller shade, 

 and red of head consisting of a squarish patch on middle of crown, instead of a 

 band across occiput. Length about 8.90-9.40, wing 5.00-5.10, tail 4.00-4.05. Eggs 

 .94 X -70. Hab. Mountains of Pacific coast, including Sierra Nevada (both slopes), 

 from Washington Territory to southern California. 



399. X. albolarvatus (CASS.). White-headed Woodpecker. 



GENUS PICOIDES LACEPEDE. (Page 280, pi. LXXXIL, fig. 2.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Above black (head glossed with bluish), the quills 

 spotted with white (back also varied with white in some species) ; a broad white 

 stripe on side of head beneath eye and ear-coverts, and beneath this a more or less 

 distinct black stripe ; lower parts white, the sides and flanks barred with black ; 

 lateral tail-feathers white (without distinct bars in American species) ; adult male 

 with yellow patch on crown. 



1 Picws (Leuconotopicus) stricklandi MALH., Rev. Zool. viii. 1845, 373. (Not Dryobates stricklandi of the 

 A. 0. U. Check List, No. 398.) 



Picus arizonse HAHGITT, Ibis, April, 1 886, 115 ( = No. 398, " Dryobates stricklandi MALH." of the A. 0. U. 

 Check List, but not Picus stricklandi MALH.). 



New subspecies; type, No. 30105, 9 ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Sierra Nevada of Colima, April, 1863, J. Xantus. 



