BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 107 
probably augmented by large numbers of winter visitors from La Laguna, 
where Mr. Frazar found only a few birds lingering in late November and early 
December. Along the road between San José del Cabo and Miraflores it was 
seen in considerable numbers on November 15, and three were observed in 
some evergreen oaks at Santiago on November 23. 
This Woodpecker, like its near allies M. formicivorus and M. f. bairdi, has 
the habit of storing acorns in holes which it pecks for their reception in the 
trunks of trees. On the Sierra de Bs Laguna Mr. Frazar found “ many dead 
pines literally stuffed full of acorns.’ 
M., f. bairdi, the form found throughout Galtonmia. passes the southern 
boundary of that State and ranges as far south on the Peninsula as San Pedro 
Martir, where it is not very numerously represented but “ probably resident.” 4 
Melanerpes uropygialis (Barrp). 
Gina WoopPECKER. 
Centurus uropygialis Batrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 302 (Cape 
‘St. Lucas). Brxpine, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V. 1888, 543 (Cape Region) ; 
VI. 1883, 345 (Cape Region). 
Melanerpes uropygialis Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 287 (Cape 
Region). Townsenp, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII. 1890, 137 (Cape St. 
Lucas; La Paz). Brenpire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, pt. II. 1895, 127 
(vicinity of Cape St. Lucas). 
My numerous Lower California specimens of this Woodpecker do not appear 
to differ from those which I have received from Arizona and northern Mexico. 
Individual variations: — Males. The red of the crown varies from deep 
crimson to orange chrome, but its distribution is very uniform. The width of 
the dark bars on the back, rump, wings, etc., is highly variable ; all my speci- 
mens have the rump and upper tail coverts distinctly barred. The color of the 
head, neck, and under parts varies from hair brown to buffy drab, the yellow of 
the belly from pale maize yellow todeep cadmium orange. Usually the yellow 
forms a broad, conspicuous patch, but in a few specimens it is faint and re- 
stricted. Several of the spring specimens are more or less stained with umber 
brown on the wings, tail, and under parts. 
Females. In respect to the yellow of the belly, the brown of the head and 
under parts, the width of the dark barring, and the staining of the wings, tail, 
and breast, the females vary much as do the males. Most of them have the 
forehead lighter than the rest of the head and in a few it is pure light buff. 
One bird has the auriculars, on one side of the head only, decidedly buffy in con- 
trast with the color of the rest of the head. Two birds (No. 17,355, Santiago, 
November 25, and No. 11,404, Triunfo, December 12, 1887), both in full 
autumn plumage, show traces of red on the crown, one having a single crimson- 
tipped feather; the other, two feathers crimson nearly to their bases. 
1 Anthony, Zoe, IV. 1898, 236. 
