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Kansas, Oklahoma and Vancouver Island, and in winter to southern 

 California and Chihuahua, Mexico. 



■[12: South Dakota 2, Colorado i, California (San Francisco i, 

 Redding i, "California" 3); Arizona (Ft. Whipple) i; Washington 

 (Prescott) 3. 



Genus TRIPSURUS Swainson. 



Tripsurus Swainson, Classif. Bds., II, 1837, p. 31 1 (Type, as fixed by Gray, 1840, 

 Picus flavifrons Vieillot). 



♦Tripsurus cnientatus (Boddaeri). Little Black Woodpecker. 



Picus cruentatus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, p. 43 (Cayenne). 



(?) Picus hirundinaceus LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 174 ("America Sep- 

 tentrionali"). 



Picus hirundinaceus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 426. 



Melanerpes meropirostris Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, p. 120. 



Melanipicus hirundinaceus Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 192; IV, 1862, 

 pi. XCVIII, figs. 4, 5, 6. 



Melanerpes cruentatus Taczanowski, Orn. P^rou, III, 1886, p. 89; Hargitt, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 155 (Bogotd, Colombia; Sarayacu, Ec- 

 uador; Chyavetas, eastern Peru; Ucayali R., Simacu, Bolivia; Chapada, Mat- 

 to Grosso, Rio Negro, Pernambuco, Brazil); Goeldi, Alb. Aves Amazon, 1900, 

 pt. I, pi. 18, fig. 8; Goodfellow, Ibis, 1902, p. 209 (Upper Rio Napo, Ecua- 

 dor); Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 92 (Suapure, Orino- 

 co Region, Venezuela); Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XIV, 1907, p. 25 (Itaituba 

 and Pard); Id., p. 79 (Teflfe); Id., p. 397 (Huma3^tha, Rio Madeira); Ber- 

 lepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 271 (Cayenne); Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., 

 XVII, 1910, p. 383 (Alianca, Rio Madeira); Snethlage, BoI. Mus. Goeldi, 

 VIII, 1914, p. 247 (Pard; Rio Caura; Rio Tapajoz; Goyana; Rio Punis; Rio 

 Acre, etc., Brazil); Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, 1, 1916, p. 485; Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 350 (Florencia; La Morelia; Buena 

 Vista; Villavicencio, Colombia); Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 LXII, No. 2, 1918, p. 56 (Javaweg, Surinam). 



Tripsurus cruentatus Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci., Sci. Bull., II, 

 No. 6, 1916, p. 306 (Munduapo). 



Range: Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Boli\aa and 

 Biazil. 



fis: Peru (Moyobamba i, Yurimaguas 2, Lower Huallaga 3); 

 "Colombia" 2; "Venezuela" i; Brazil (Porto Velho, Upper Rio Madeira) 

 3; Bolivia (Todos Santos, Rio Chapare) i. 



♦Tripsurus rubrifrons (Spix). Red-fronted Woodpecker. 



Picus rubrifrons Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 61, pi. LV, figs. 1-2 ("in sylvis 



Paras"). 

 Melampicus rubrifrons Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 196; IV, 1862, 



pi. XCVIII, figs. 1-2. 



