164 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 88, 89, C 304, 305, R 370, C 449-] 



GEOG. DIST. Rocky Mountain region of the United States, west 

 to the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and northern Coast Ranges ; south 

 on the tablelands of Mexico to the Sierra Bolanos, Jalisco. 



GENUS CEOPHLCEUS CABANIS. 



Ceophlceus CABANIS, J. f. O. 1862, 176. Type, Picus pileatus 

 LINN. 



405. Ceophloeus pileatus (LINN.). 



Pileated Woodpecker. 



Picus pileatus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 113. 

 C\eophl(Kus\ pileatus CABANIS, J. f. O. 1862, 176. 



[B 90, C 294, R 371, C 432.] 



GEOG. DIST. Formerly the heavily wooded region of North 

 America south of about Lat. 63, except in the southern Rocky 

 Mountains ; now rare or extirpated in the more thickly settled parts 

 of the Eastern States. 



GENUS MELANERPES SWAINSON. 



SUBGENUS MELANERPES. 



Melanerpes SWAINS, in Sw. & RICH. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 1831, 316. 

 Type, Picus erythrocephalus LINN. 



406. Melanerpes erythrocephalus (LINN.). 



Bed-headed Woodpecker. 



Picus erythrocephalus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 113. 

 Melanerpes erythrocephalus SWAINS, in Sw. & RICH. Fauna Bor. 

 Am. II. 1831, 316. 



[694, C 309, R375, C 453.] 



GEOG. DIST. United States, west to the Rocky Mountains, and 

 north from Florida to about Lat. 50, straggling westward to Salt Lake 

 Valley and Arizona ; rare or local east of the Hudson River. 



