I20 Eighth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. Auk 
Jan. 
[B 48, part, C 3176, R 4054, part, C 464.] 
Groc. Dist.— Southern California (exact range not known). 
394c. Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swains.). 
Downy Woodpecker. 
Picus (Dendrocopus) medianus Swains. in Swatns. & RICH. 
Faun. Bor.-Am. II, 1831, 308. 
Dryobates pubescens medianus BREWSTER, Auk, Jan. 1897, 82. 
[B 76, part, C 299, part, R 361, part, C 440, part.| 
Groc. Dist.— Middle and northern parts of eastern United 
States and northward. 
No. 394, Dryobates pubescens, the Southern Downy Wood- 
pecker, thus becomes restricted to the South Atlantic and Gulf 
States, from South Carolina to Florida and Texas. (C/. BREw- 
STER, /. ¢.) 
394d. Dryobates pubescens nelsoni OBERHOLSER. 
Nelson’s Downy Woodpecker. 
Dryobates pubescens nelsont OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. XVIII, 1895, 549. 
[B 76, part, C 299, part, R 361, part, C 440, part.| 
Groc. Dist.— Alaska and northern British America. 
407. Melanerpes formicivorus (SwaIns.). 
Ant-eating Woodpecker. 
Picus formictvorus Swains. Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 439. 
Melanerpes formicivorus Bonar. Consp. Av. I, 1850, 115. 
[B 95, part, C 310, part, R377, part, C 454, part.| 
Groc. Dist.— Western Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, 
thence southward over the tablelands of Mexico. 
(The numeration of Nos. 407 and 407a hereby becomes changed 
to 407a and 4070 respectively.) 
414a. Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens ANTHONY. 
Brown Flicker. 
Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens ANTHONY, Auk, XII, Oct. 
1895, 347- 
