igig. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 429 



Melanerpes xantholarynx Reichenbach, Handb. Scans. Picinae, 1854, p. 384, 

 pi. 643, figs. 4293-4294 ("Mexico"); Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 

 1890, p. 155 (Mexico?). 



Range : Mexico." 



Genus LINNEOPICUS Malherbe. 



Linneopicus Malherbe, "Mem. Acad. Metz., 1848-49"; Nouv. Classif. Picin., 

 1850, p. 52 (Type Picus herminieri Lesson). 



*Limieopicus herminieri (Lesson). Guadeloupe Woodpecker. 



Picus herminieri Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1 83 1, p. 228 (Guadeloupe I., Lesser 



Antilles). 

 Melampicus herminieri Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 198; IV, 1862, pi. 



100, fig. I. 

 Melanerpes herminieri Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 163; 



Cory, Cat. West Ind. Bds., 1892, p. 12. 

 Melanerpes I'herminieri Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 1878, p. 459; CoRT. 



Auk, 1886, p. 377; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 172. 

 Linneopicus herminieri Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 113, 



Range: Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. 

 136: Guadeloupe I., Lesser Antilles. 



Genus ASYNDESMUS Coues. 



Asyndesmus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 55 (Type, by original 

 designation, Picus torquatus W ilson = Asyndesmus lewisi Riley. 



♦Asjmdesmus lewisi Riley. Lewis' Woodpecker. 



Picus torquatus (not of Boddaert, 1783) Wilson, Am. Orn., Ill, 181 1, p. 31, pi. 



20 (Montana, about lat. 46 N.). 

 Asyndesmus lewisi Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., XVIII, 1905, p. 225, in 



text (ex "Picus lewis Drap[iez]" Gray, Gen. Bds., Ill, 1849, App., p. 22; 



new name for Picus torquatus Wilson, preoccupied); Amer. Om. Union 



Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 193; Ridgway, BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 



VI, 1914, p. 114- 

 Asyndesmus torquatus Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 137; 



and authors. 

 Melanerpes torquatus Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Om., I, 1832, p. 321, pi. 20, 



fig. 3; and authors. 



Range: Western North America, British Colombia and southern 

 Alberta, south to Arizona and New Mexico and from the inner coast 

 ranges of California to the Black Hills, South Dakota, and western 

 Nebraska, western Kansas, eastern Colorado, etc.; casual in eastern 



» Type locality doubtful. The type specimen (which so far as known is unique) 

 has apparently been lost. 



