286 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
spotted or broadly streaked with dark brown. Hab. South- 
eastern Mexico (Jalapa, etc.). 
D. stricklandi (Maxu.). Strickland’s Woodpecker.! 
a, Back without any white. Upper parts plain brown or light sepia, the quills, 
also inner webs of secondaries, spotted with white; whole breast and sides 
spotted with dark brown, the flanks and under tail-coverts barred or trans- 
versely spotted with the same. Adult males with a rather narrow occipital 
band of red, as in D. villosus and D. pubescens; young males with nearly 
whole top of head red. 
b. Larger: Length 7.40-8.40, wing 4.40-4.65 (4.49), tail 2.55-2.95 (2.81), exposed 
culmen .90-1.05 (.98). Hab. Southern Arizona and adjacent portion of 
northwestern Mexico. 
398. D. arizonz (Harairr). Arizona Woodpecker. 
b%. Smaller: Length 6.25, wing 4.10, tail 2.60, exposed culmen .78. Hab. South- 
western Mexico (Sierra Madre of Colima). : 
D. arizone fraterculus Ripaw. Colima Woodpecker.’ 
Gznus XENOPICUS Bairp. (Page 280, pl. LXXXIV., fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Adult male: Head, neck (except hinder part), upper part of chest, and basal 
portion of quills white; occiput with a transverse patch or broad band of bright 
red; rest of plumage uniform black. Adult female: Similar to the male, but with- 
out any red on head. Young male: Similar to adult, but black of a duller shade, 
and red of head consisting of a squarish patch on middle of crown, instead of a 
band across occiput. Length about 8.90-9.40, wing 5.00-5.10, tail 4.00-4.05. Eggs 
.95 X .71, Hab. Mountains of Pacific coast, including Sierra Nevada (both slopes), 
from Washington Territory to southern California. 
399. X. albolarvatus (Cass.). "White-headed Woodpecker. 
Genus PICOIDES Lacépips. (Page 280, pl. LXXXIL,, fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Common Caaractrrs.—Above black (head glossed with bluish), the quills 
spotted with white (back also varied with white in some species); a broad white 
stripe on side of head beneath eye and ear-coverts, and beneath this a more or less 
distinct black stripe; lower parts white, the sides and flanks barred with black; 
lateral tail-feathers white (without distinct bars in American species); adult male 
with yellow patch on crown. 
1 Picus (ZL topicus) stricklandi Matn., Rev. Zool. viii. 1845, 373. (Not Dryobates stricklandi of the 
A. 0. U. Check List, No. 398.) 
2 Picus arizone Harerrt, Ibis, April, 1886, 115 (— No. 398, “ Dryobates stricklandi Maun.” of the A. 0. U. 
Check List, but not Picus etricklandi Maun.). 
5 New subspecies; type, No. 30105, 9 ad., U.S. Nat. Mus., Sierra Nevada of Colima, April, 1863, J. Xantus. 
