2 2 Brewster 07i a CoUcctioii of Arizona B/rds. [January 



{$ and ? , May i6) ; Tucson ( $ and ? , June 8) ; Camp Low- 

 ell ( 9 June 31. three $ and one 9 June 22). 



124. Picus villosus harrisi {Ajtd.) Allen. Harris's 

 Woodpecker. 



40, $ ad., Chiricahua Mountains. March 14. Length, 9.10: extent, 

 11^.60; wing, 4-93. "Iris brown. Common here among pines." 



135. Picus scalaris Wagl. Texan Sapsucker. — Com- 

 mon. A nest containing four eggs was found April 19, at 



Tucson. 



A male taken April 15, at Cienega Station, differs from the other Ari- 

 zona specimens as follows : The red of the head is restricted to a stripe 

 above and behind the eye and to a broad band on the occiput, the entire 

 forehead and crown being black finely spotted with white. In these 

 respects it agrees with descriptions of var. lucasanns, but the tail-markings 

 are as in 5c«/rt;-/.« proper. A female in first plumage (No. 441, Tucson, 

 May 26) has the crown dull red, the occiput black, the plumage beneath 

 thickly spotted, and the dorsal bars dull and ill-defined. 



136. Picus Strickland! Malb. Strickland's Woodpeck- 

 er. — The explorations of the past season developed little of im- 

 portance regarding this Woodpecker, save the fact of its occur- 

 rence among the Santa Rita Mountains, where Mr. Stephens 

 found it nearly as abundant as in the Chiricahua range. His 

 efforts to obtain its eggs were unsuccessful, but a nest containing 

 3'oung was discovered May 16. '-The shell of the tree (a s\ca- 

 amore) was very hard, and as I had only a pocket knife to cut 

 with, I did not attempt to open the hole. The voices of the 

 young sounded as if they might be about two weeks old." The 

 above date would indicate that this W^oodpecker is a rather early 

 breeder, an inference which is further sustained bv the fact that 

 a female, taken April i, ''would have laid in two or three weeks." 



The fourteen specimens collected show a remarkable amount of varia- 

 tion in respect to the spotting of the under parts. In some examples the 

 markings are small, tear-shaped, and confined chiefly to the sides and a 

 scarceh' continuous band across the breast, the median line of the body 

 being nearly immaculate, and the throat absolutely so. In others the 

 feathers of the throat (but not of the chin) have fine brown shaft-streaks, 

 and the remainder of the under plumage is so thickly and coarsely spotted 

 that its light ground-color is often nearly obliterated. Between these 

 extremes are many intermediate styles, scarcely any two birds being 

 exactly alike. The increase in the size and number of spots is usually 

 correlated with a decrease in the amount of white on the tail. Normally 

 the outer feathers have three white spaces continuous across both webs ; 

 the second pair two. But with heavily-spotted birds the white on the 

 second feather is sometimes confined to a single pair of sub-terminal spots 



