PICID.E — THE WOODri'X'lCEKS. 561 



domen, sides, and crissum, with patdi on base of primaries, pure wliite, 

 the sides and breast with black streaks. Other portions glossy bhie- black. 

 $. Whole crow n and nape carniiiie. 9 with the occiput and nape 

 alone red. 



More than the anterior half of the pectoral bund immaculate. 

 9 with the white frontal, bl.iek coronal, and red occipital bands 

 of about equal width. Forehead and throat only slightly tinged 

 with sulphur-yellow. Wing, 5.80; tail, 3.90; bill, 1.27. Ilab. 

 Pacific Province of United States, and Northern and Western 

 Mexico ........ \tu:for)nicivoru.i. 



9 with the white frontal band only about half as wide iis the 

 black coronal, which is only about half as wide as the red occipi- 

 tal, baud or patch. Forehead and throat bright sulphur-yellow. 

 Wing, .').40 ; tail, 3.Go ; bill, 1.23. Ilab. Lower California. 



var. a n gust ifr on,i. 



Nearly the whole of the black pectoral band variegated loith white streaks. 



Relative width of the white, black, and red areas on the crown as in 

 formicivorus. Wing, 5.30 ; tail, 3.75; bill, 1.22. Hub. Middle America, 

 south of Orizaba and Mirador .... var. .it riatipectus} 



$. Nape, only, red (as in females of preceding races) ; 9 without 

 any red. 



Whole breast streaked, the black and white being in about equiil 

 amount. Wing, 5.70 ; tail, 3.90 ; bill, 1.20. Hab. New Granada. 



var. Jlavig ula.^ 



Melanerpes torquatus, Boxap. 



LEWIS'S WOODPECKEB. 



Pictis torquatus, Wii.sos, Am. Orii. Ill, Ibll, 31, pi. .\x. — Wagler, Syst. Av. 182/, No. 

 82. — Aun. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 170, pi. ccccxvi. —In. Birds Amer. IV, 18-12, 280, pi. 

 cdxxii. — SuNDKVALL, C'oiisp. .51. Melanerpes torquatus, Bp. C'onsp. IS-iO, 115. — 

 Hekumann, J. A. N. S.'. Phil, ad scr. II, 1853, 270. — XEwnKitiiv, Zool. Cal. & Or. 

 Bouto, 90, in 1>. U. K. Surv. VI, 1857. — lUiun, Birds N. Am. 115. — Cooi-Kii & 

 SucKLEY, 1«1. — Cassix. Pr. A. N. S. 1863, 327. —Loud, Pr. 11. A. lust. IV, 1804, 

 112 (nesting). — C'odi'EI!, Orii. Cal. I, 1870, 400. Picus montiinus, Oisi). in Outluic's 

 Gcog. 2d Am. I'd. II, 1815, 316. Pieu.i Icwisii, DuAi'iuz. (Gray.) Asyndesiiius tor- 

 quatus, C'oUES, Pr. A. N. S. 1866, 55. 



Sp. Cuah. Feathers on the under parts liristle-like. Fourth quill longest; then third 

 and fifth. Above dark glos.sy-green. Breast, lower part of the neck, and a narrow collar 

 all round, hoary grayish-white. Around the base of the bill and sides of the head to 



• ^fe.lancr|>es formicivorus, var. striatipectus, Rinr.WAV. In view of the very aiipreeialilc 

 diircrcni^i! from the other nices ninuml, it appears ni'ci'ssary to naiiic this oiic, in ortlcr that it 

 may rank eipially with tliii rest. The almost entirely streaked breast is only an approaeli to what 

 wc see, in its extreme phase, in the vai-. flaviijula. The l)lack vertex of the female apiiears 

 broader than in sjieeimens of viw. furmieienrus. 



'^ Mrlnuerpes formicivorus, var. Jliiriijulii, Natt. .}felamj)ieus favigiilu (^\T[.), Mai.u. Uev. 

 Zool. 1849, 542, Monog. Pie. II, 202, pi. xcix, f. 5, 0. Melanerpes fliivi'juli<ris, .Sci,. P. Z. .S. 

 1856, 161. This ean only be considered the melanistie extreme of a siieeies of which the var. 

 formicivorus is the rubeseent one, the transition being gradual through the var. slrialij)eelus of 

 the intermediate region. 



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