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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



221 



70 

 2S2 



2S3 

 302 



303 

 1020 

 1221 



9 ad. 



9 ad. 

 3 

 9 



3 



9 



i ad. 



9 



Mountains near Fort 



Garland, Colo. 

 South Fark, Colo 



June 3, 1S73 



June 28, 1873 

 Sept. 19, 1S74 

 do 



H. W. Henshaw 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock.... 



4.72 

 4.78 



3-43 

 3-46 



1.05 

 1.05 



0.77 

 0.77 



do 



do 











Rio Grande, Colo 



do 



White Mountains, Ariz. 

 do 



Sept. 24, 1874 

 Sept. 25, 1S74 

 Oct. 17, 1874 

 do 



do 











do 











H. W. Henshaw 











do 

























SPHYRAPICPS VARIUS (Linn.), var. NUCHALIS, Bd. 

 Red-naped Woodpecker. 



Sphyrapicus nuchalis, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 921, pi. 35.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 105 (New Mexico).— Goues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 18GG, 53 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 463. 



Sphyropicus nuchalis, Cooper, Birds Gal., i, 1870, 390. — Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs., 

 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 36. 



Sphyropicus varius var. nuchalis, Bd., Birds N. A., 185S, 103 (in text). — Allen, Bui. 

 Mus. Conip. Zool., 1872, 180 (mountains of Colorado).— Codes, Key N. A. 

 Birds, 1S72, 195.— Bd., Brew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 542, pi. 51, 

 tigs. 3, 4. — Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, R'74, 33. — Codes, 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 280. 



Sphyropicus varius var. nuchalis, Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheel- 

 er's Exped., 1S74, 24.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 89, 133. 



Picus varius, Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 32G.— Ueerm.. P. R. R. 

 Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 58. 



Sphyropicus varius, Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 207. 



With all the habits and notes of the eastern Yellow-bellied Wood- 

 pecker, this variety is found throughout the Rocky Mountains, extending 

 on the west to the Sierra Nevada, where it gives way to the var. ruber. It 

 everywhere shows a very marked preference for the deciduous timber, to 

 the avoidance of the pines, and is particularly numerous in the aspens, 

 among which it extends upward on the mountains as high as 12,000 feet, and 

 at which elevation it was observed by Dr. Rothrock in South Park, Colorado. 



In Southern Colorado, I found this and the succeeding species inhabiting 

 the same region in June ; yet the habits of the two were sufficiently distinct 

 as to draw a sharp line between the areas inhabited by either, and the two 

 apparently never encroached on each other's domain, though I have often 



