OEDEE PICI. 193 



6. Melanerpes fonnicivorus balrdi Ridgwat. California Woodpecker. 

 [407a.] 



Melanerpes fonnicivorus bairdi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 21, 

 1881, 34, 85. (Petaluma, California.) 



Range. — Upper Sonoran and lower part of Transition zones of the Pacific 

 coast region from northwestern Oregon south to northern Lower California. 



e. Melanerpes fonnicivorus angustifrons Baird. Narrow-fronted Wood- 

 pecker. [4076.] 



Melanerpes formicivorus var. angustifrons Baibd, in Cooper, Geol. Surv. 

 Calif., Orn., I, 1870, 405. (Cape San Lucas, Lower California.) 



Range. — Cape Region of Lower California. 



Genus ASYNDESMUS Coues. 



Asyndesmus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 55. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Picus torquatus Wilson = Asyndesmus lewisi Riley. 



Asyndesmus 16wisi Riley. Lewis's Woodpecker. [408.] 



Asyndesmus lewisi Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, 1905, 225. 

 (Montana, about Lat. 46° N.) 



Range. — Transition Zone from southern British Columbia and 

 southern Alberta to Arizona and New Mexico and from the inner 

 coast ranges of California to the Black Hills, South Dakota, and 

 western Nebraska; in winter to southern California, western Texas, 

 and Chihuahua, Mexico; casual in western Kansas. 



Genus CENTXJRUS Swainson. 



Centurus Swainson, Classif. Birds, II, 1837, 310. Type, by monotypy, 

 Picv^ carolinus Linn^us. 



Centurus carolinus (LiNN.a:us). Red-bellied Woodpecker. [409.] 



Picus carolinus Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 113. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Upper and Lower Austral zones of eastern United States 

 from southeastern South Dakota, southeastern Minnesota, south- 

 western Ontario, western New York, southwestern Pennsylvania, and 

 Delaware south to central Texas and the Gulf coast; casual north 

 to Colorado and Massachusetts. 



