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Modoe County (Mus. Vert. Zool.), and in the pinyon belt on the Panamint and 
Grapevine mountains, Inyo County (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, 
p. 47). Of casual occurrence in winter elsewhere in the eastern portion of the 
state: Quincy, Kernville and Fort Tejon (W. K. Fisher, Condor, rv, 1902, p. 69) ; 
the specimens in question are said to be not typical. 
235 (396) Dryobates scalaris cactophilus Oberholser 
Cactus WooDPECKER 
Synonyms—Picus scalaris, part; Dendrocopus scalaris; Dryobates scalaris ; 
Dryobates lucasanus; Dryobates scalaris lucasanus; Dryobates scalaris bairdi; 
Texas Woodpecker; Baird Woodpecker; San Lucas Woodpecker; Arizona Wood- 
pecker. 
Status—Common resident locally on the Lower Sonoran deserts of south- 
eastern California, from the valley of the Colorado (north to Needles) west to 
the Santa Rosa Mountains (Mus. Vert. Zool.), Whitewater, San Gorgonio Pass 
(G. S. Miller, Auk, x1, 1894, p. 178), Hesperia, Mohave desert (A. K. Fisher, N. 
Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 47), and Onyx, Weldon and Kelso Valley, Kern 
County (Mus. Vert. Zool.). Recorded casually to San Jacinto Valley (J. Grin- 
nell and Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., x, 1913, p. 242) and Riverside (Heller, 
Condor, m1, 1901, p. 100). The records of ‘‘lwcasanus’’ for California appear 
to have been based on individual extremes of the prevalent cactophilus (see 
Oberholser, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1911, p. 154). 
236 (397) Dryobates nuttalli (Gambel) 
NurraLL WoopPECKER 
Synonyms—Picus scalaris, part; Picus nuttalli; Dendrocopus nuttalli; 
Picus scalaris var. nuttalli. 
Status—Common resident locally of the Upper Sonoran zone west of the 
Sierran divide, from Yreka, Siskiyou County (Baird, Pac. R. R. Rep., rx, 1858, 
p. 93), Red Bluff, Tehama County (Townsend, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 
205), and San Geronimo, Marin County (J. Maillard, Auk, xv, 1898, p. 196), 
south to San Diego (Belding, Land Bds. Pac. Dist., 1890, p. 62). Not recorded 
from the northwest humid coast belt north of Marin County, nor from east of the 
Sierras, save for a winter occurrence on the Mohave desert at Victorville (J. 
Maillard and J. Grinnell, Condor, vm, 1905, p. 75). The easternmost breeding 
station in central California is Walker Pass, Kern County (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; in 
the San Diegan district, the Cuyamaca Mountains (Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
237 (399, part) Kenopicus albolarvatus albolarvatus (Cassin) 
NORTHERN WHITE-HEADED WOODPECKER 
Synonyms—Picus albolarvatus, part; Melanerpes albolarvatus; Leuconer- 
pes albolarvatus. 
Status—Common resident in the Transition zone along the Sierra Nevada, 
both slopes, from Mount Shasta and Shasta Valley (C. H. Merriam, N. Amer. 
Fauna no. 16, 1899, p. 114) south to Mount Pinos and head of Piru Creek, Ven- 
