194 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Centurus atirifrons (Waglee). Golden-fronted Woodpecker. [410.] 

 Picas aurifrons Wagler, Isis, XXII, 1829, 512. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Central northern Texas south to Valley of Mexico. 



Centurus uropyglalis Baied. Gila Woodpecker. [411.] 



Centurus uropygialis Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 120. 

 (BiU Williams Forli of Colorado River, Arizona.) 



Range. — Lower part of Lower Sonoran Zone from the Colorado 

 Valley in southeastern California and the extreme southeastern 

 corner of Nevada east through southern Arizona and southwestern 

 New Mexico, and south through Lower California and western Mexico 

 to Tepic. 



Genus COLAPTES Vigors. 



Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XIV, Ft. iii, 1825, 457 (note). 

 Type, by orig. desig., Cuculus auratus Linnmub. 



Colaptes aurS,tus (Linn^us). 



.Range. — Eastern North America, from tree limit south to the 

 Gulf coast. 



a. Colaptes auratus auratus (Linn^sus). Flicker. [412.] 



Cuculus auratus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 112. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Austroriparian Zone of South Atlantic and Gulf States from 

 North Carolina and southern Illinois to southern Florida and central Texas. 



b. Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs. Northern Flicker. [412a.] 



Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, Auk, XV, April, 1898, 177. (Watertown, 



Mass.) 



Range. — Northern and eastern North America. Breeds from tree limit 

 in northwestern Alaska, northwestern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, southern 

 Ungava, and Newfoundland south, east of the Rocky Mountains, to northern 

 edge of Austroriparian Zone ; occasional on Pacific slope from California north- 

 ward; accidental in Greenland; migratory through most of Canada but more 

 or less regularly resident within the United States, except the extreme northern 

 parts; south in winter to the Gulf coast and southern Texas. 



