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Texas. — Fort Davis; El Paso; Presidio County; Davis Mountains, 

 20 miles southwest of Toyahvale; Chisos Mountains; Fort Han- 

 cock; mouth of Tornillo Creek (near Boquillas); 25 miles south 

 of Ali)ine. 



Z7toA.— Santa Clara. 



Ohikuahua. — Colonia Diaz; Colonia Juiirez; Casas Grandes; San 

 Diego; Chihuahua City; Boca Grande. 



Durango. — Cienega de las Vacas; Rio vSestin; l^as Bocas; Rancho 

 Baillon; Rosario. 



Lower California. — Gardners Laguna, Salton River; Cocopah Major 

 Mountains; Colony, lower Colorado River; lower Colorado River, 

 above Colony. 



Sonora. — Magdalena; Bacadehuachy; Sonoyta, 1 mile south of 

 Nogales; Poso de Luis; Colorado River, below Colonia Diaz; 

 Oputo; Nacori; Guaymas; Santa Cruz. 



DRYOBATES SCALARIS SYMPLECTUS, new subspecies. 



Chars, suhsp. — Resembhng Dryohates scalaris cactopliilus, but male 

 smaller; upper parts lighter, the white bars wider, the black bars 

 narrower, and vnth. more wliite on pileum; and sides of breast less 

 often strealied (mostly spotted). 



Descnption. — Type, adult male. No. 140730, U.S.N.M., Biological 

 Survey collection; mouth of Nueces River, Texas, November 21, 

 1891; William Lloyd. Crown and nape black, the feathers of the 

 former subterminally white, terminally scarlet vermiHon, this pro- 

 ducing a mottled appearance on the top of the head, but merging 

 into a solid band of red on the occiput and anterior hind neck; rest of 

 upper surface of body black, all, except superior tail-coverts, broadly 

 barred with wliite — these white bars broader than the black inter- 

 spaces; tail black, the three outer pairs of feathers, including the 

 dwarfed outermost one, barred throughout \xiih. wliite; the fourth 

 pair barred terminally on inner vane, and for distal half on outer vane, 

 and spotted on basal part of outer vane, \vith wliite; \\dngs black, 

 much spotted with wliite, this forming, on tertials and some longer 

 wing-coverts, fairly well-defuied bars; sides of head and neck brown- 

 ish white, with a postocular and a malar stripe of black, which meet 

 on the side of the neck; nasal tufts and lower surface dull light brown- 

 ish, the sides of breast and body vdt\\ spots of black, the flanks and 

 crissum with bars of the same; lining of wing white, Avdth spots of 

 black. 



Measurements. — Male:^ Wing, 98-107 (average, 102.3) mm;; tail, 

 53.5-60.5 (56.9); exposed culmen, 20-24 (22.4); tarsus, 16-18.5) 17.7); 

 middle toe, 12-13.5 (12.6). 



1 Eighteen specimens, from Texas, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leon. 



