434 FiClBM. 



Dendrocojpus stricklandi has always been a rare bird in collections, probably due to 

 the high elevation at which it is found over a limited area of Mexico. Salle and his 

 immediate successors secured a few specimens, which were recorded by Mr. Sclater ^ ^ 

 More recently Don F. Ferrari-Perez found it on the hills surrounding the Valley of 

 Mexico and at Las Vigas ; Mr. W. B. Eichardson on the slopes of Ixtaccihuatl ; 

 Trujillo on the Cofre de Perote ; and Mr. Baker at the foot of the peak of Orizaba, 

 at an altitude of 8700 feet ^. 



The only species B. stricklandi at all resembles is J), arizonce, which, indeed, passed 

 under the former name until Mr. Hargitt showed that the two birds belonged to quite 

 distinct species. 



The dark portion of the plumage of both birds is of a similar shade of brown, but 

 D. stricklandi not only has the breast streaked instead of spotted as in D. arizonce, but 

 the back is transversely banded with broad white bars. 



4. Dendrocopus arizons. 



Picus stricklandi, Gray (nee Malh.), List Pieid. Brit. Mus. p. 37'; Hensh. U. S. Geogr. Surv. 



W. of 100th Merid. p. 389 ". 

 Dryobates stricklandi, A. O. U. List N. Am. Birds, p. 213 '. 

 Picus arizona, Hargitt, Ibis, 1886, p. 115 *. 



Deyidrocopus arizona, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 228'. 

 Dryobates arizona frater cuius, Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 286". 



Supra bruaneus, uropygio paulo saturatiore, nucha coocinea, stria postoculari, altera infra oculos ad eervieis 

 latera extendente albis : subtuB albus, gutture fere immaculato, planus reliquis macula brunnea discali 

 notatis ; hypoohondriis imis brunneo transfasciatis ; remigibus in pogonio externo et alis subtus fere 

 omnino albo maculatis ; caudee reotricibus externis albis, regulariter fusco fasciatis ; rostro et pedibus 

 nigricantibus. Long, tota circa 7"5, alae 4'6, cauds 3'8, rostri a rictu 2*2, tarsi 0-8, dig. med. absque 

 ungue 0"5, dig. ext. 0"55. 



9 mari similis, plaga nuchaH coccinea absente. (Descr. maris et femins ex Temosachic, Chihuahua, Mexico. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. NoETH America, Arizona ^ s. — Mexico, near Oposura in Sonora (Cahoon), Yecaera 

 {W. Lloyd), Chihuahua {Buchan-Hepburn, W. Lloyd), Kio Verde, Temosachic, 

 Tomochic, and Rio de Urique in Chihuahua ( W. Lloyd), La Laguna in the Sierra 

 de Alica [Dr. A. C. Buller, in Mus. Rothschild), Tepic, Sierra de Nayarit, Sierra de 

 Valparaiso, Sierra de Bolaiios {W. B. Richardson), Hacienda de San Marcos 

 {W. Lloyd), Volcan de Colima {W. B. Richardson), Sierra Nevada de Colima 

 (Xantus ^) . 



This Woodpecker is found in the North-western and Western Sierras of Mexico, 

 passing the political frontier into Arizona, where it has of recent years been found by 

 many collectors. 



Its southern range extends to the Sierra Nevada de Colima, where Xantus found it, 

 and in the same district Mr. Lloyd procured us several specimens near the Hacienda de 



