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from Mr. Buchan-Hepburn, who shot it near Pinos Altos in Chihuahua. We have 

 since received several examples from Mr. Lloyd from the same State, and others from 

 Mr. Richardson from as far south as Bolanos in the sierras of Jalisco. Dr. BuUer also met 

 with it near Guadalajara and sent specimens to Mr. Eothschild, which we have seen. 



DENDEOCOPUS. 



Dendrocopus, Kocli, Baler. Zool. i. p. 72 (1816) (nee Vieill. 18l6=Dendrocolaptes, Harm.); 



Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 201. 

 Dryobates, Boie, Isis, 1829, p. 977, et auctt. Amer. 



This genus has a wide range over nearly the whole of North America, Northern 

 Europe, and Asia to Japan, and southwards in the New World to Costa Eica and 

 Chiriqui, and in the Old to North Africa, Northern India, and Burmah, as well as 

 Malacca and Java. In South America there is also an isolated colony of species 

 inhabiting Chili, Argentina, and the extreme south of Brazil. No species is found in 

 the Ethiopian region. In America by far the larger number of species belong to the 

 north, beyond the limits of our region ; but we find within our boundary two closely 

 allied forms in Dendrocopus harrisi and D.jardinii, as well as such well-defined species 

 as B. stricMandi, B. arizonce, and 3. scalaris — a small proportion of only five 

 representatives of the whole forty-five species and subspecies recognized by Mr. Hargitt 

 in his recent Catalogue of the Picidae. 



With many of the features of Sphyropicus, Dendrocopus can be distinguished by the 

 development of the stiff" curved bristly feathers which completely hide the nostrils and 

 also the angle between the rami of the mandible ; the groove and the ridge above it 

 which runs above the nostril parallel to the culmen are very strongly developed. 



In using Koch's generic name Dendrocopus for these Woodpeckers, we follow 

 Swainson (1837) and Mr. Hargitt. The same name was applied to a totally diff"erent 

 group of birds by Vieillot, also in 1816. Which title has actual priority is not easy 

 to say. Anyhow Vieillot's name can never be used, as it is simply a synonym of 

 Dendrocolaptes ; so Dendrocopus, Koch, may be allowed to stand. 



a. Aloe externe et plumce scapulares uniformes; nucha maris coccinea. 



1. Dendrocopus harrisi. 



Picus harrisii, Aud. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 191 ^ 



Picus villosus, var. harrisi, Baird, Brew., & Ridgvv. N. Am. Birds, ii. p. 507 '. 



Dendrocopus harrisi, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 234 \ 



Supra nitenti-niger, dorso medio plaga elongata alba notafca, nucha coccinea ; plumia nasalibus, superoiliis et 



stria elongata infra oculos albis : subtus albus, plumis pectoris laterum medialiter nigris, hypochondriis 



sparsim nigro striatis; remigibus externis in pogonio externo et alis subtus omnino albo maculatis ; 



caudse rectrioibus duabus subexternis fere omnino albis, in pogonio interno nigro irregulater albo notatis ; 



rostro nigro ; pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota circa 8-0, alse S'O, caud» 3-9, rostri a riotu 1-4, tarsi 0-8, dig. 



med. absque ungue 0-54, dig. ext. 0'54. 



