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♦Hypoxanthus rivolii brevirostris ( Taczanowski) . Short-billed Ri voli 

 Woodpecker. 



Hypoxanthus brevirostris Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 446 

 (Higos and Chilpes, Peru); Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 

 31- 



Hypoxanthus rivolii brevirostris Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1884, p. 307; Taczanowski, Orn. P^rou, III, 1886, p. 90; Menegaux, 

 Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 1910, No. 5, p. 363 (Peru); Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 346 (Laguneta; Santa Isabel; Vol- 

 cancito; El Eden, Colombia). 



Range: Peru, Ecuador and central Colombia. 

 I : Ecuador? 



Hypoxanthus atriceps Sclater and Salvin. Black-headed Wood- 

 pecker. 



Hypoxanthus atriceps Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, p. 254 

 (Huasampilla, Peru); /d., 1879, p. 632; Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 

 1890, p. 32 (Ramosani and Tilotilo, Prov. Yungas, Bolivia; Huasampilla, 

 Peru). 



Range: Bolivia and Peru (Huasampilla). 



Genus MELANERPES Swainson. 



Melanerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor. Am., II, 1831, p. 316 (Type, by original desig- 

 nation, Picus erythrocephalus Linnaeus). 



*Melanerpes erythrocephalus {LinncBus). Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker. 



Picus erythrocephalus LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, p. 113 (Carolina). 

 Melampicus erythrocephalus Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 209; IV, 1862, 



pi. 97, figs. I, 2, 3. 

 Melanerpes erythrocephalus Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Bds., 



II, 1874, p. 564, pi. 54, fig. 4; Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 



145; Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 42; Swarth, 



Cooper Orn. Club, Pacific Coast Avi., No. 10, 1914, p. 34 (Chiricahua Mts., 



Arizona). 



Range: North America from southeastern British Columbia, 

 southern Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, south to the Gulf coast, and 

 from central Montana, central Colorado and central Texas, east to the 

 Atlantic coast. Common to northern New York and Valleys of the 

 Hudson and Delaware Rivers, but rare and local in New England; 

 casual in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 

 wick. 



tsi : Maine i ; Massachusetts (Great Island, Hyannis) 2; New Jersey 

 (Englewood) i; Florida (Gainesville 3, New River 2, Town Point i); 



