20 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



COLAPTES AURATUS BOREALIS Ridgway. 



BOREAI, FLICEEB. 



Similar to C. a. auratus and C. a. luteus in coloration, but larger 

 than the latter, much larger than the former." 



Adult male.— Jjeagi^i (skins), 270-314 (292); wing, 156-170 (162.9); 

 tail, 102.5-115 (107); culmen, 34.5^0 (36.4); tarsus, 27-31.5 (29); 

 outer anterior toe, 21-24.5 (22.5). » 



Adult /emaZe.— Length (skms), 270-310 (287); wmg, 156-171 

 (162.3); tail, 99-115 (105.5); ouhnen, 32.5-38.6 (35.6); tarsus, 

 27.5-30.5 (28.8); outer anterior toe, 21-23.5 (22.2)." 



Northern North America, east of Rocky Mountains, from Labrador, 

 Quebec, northern Ontario, Minnesota, North Dakota, eastern Mon- 

 tana, eastern Wyoming, etc., north to the limit of tree growth (north- 

 ern IJngava, Mackenzie, etc.), northwestward through Alaska to the 

 shores of Bering Sea and to vaUey of the Kowak River; accidental 

 on PribUof Islands and in Greenland; occasional in winter along or 

 near Pacific coast through British Columbia (including Vancouver 

 Island) to California, and along Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 



[Picus\ auratus (not of Liimseus) Foesteh, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 383, 387 



(Albany Fort). 

 Colaptes auratus Rbinhabdt, Ibis, 1861, 8 (accidental in Greenland).— Blak- 

 iSTON, Ibis, 1862, 3 (Hudson Bay).— Dail and Bannister, Trans. Chicago 

 Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 275 (near Ft. Yukon and Nulato, Alaska).— AiiBN, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 63 (Ft. Rice, North Dakota, and west of Mussel- 

 shell B.).— CoTJES, Check List, 1873, no. 312, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 457, 

 part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 292, part; BuU. TJ. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., iv, 1878, 617 (Pembina, Mouse R., Turtle Mt., etc.. North Dakota; 

 crit.).— Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, 97 (Greenland, 1 

 spec, 1852). — Gbktnell (G. B.), in Ludlow's Rep. Recon., 1876, 81 (Mis- 

 souri R. as far as Ft. Buford). — McChesnet, BuU. U. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Surv. Terr., v. 1879, 82 (Ft. Sisseton, North Dakota, resident).— Ridg- 

 way, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 378, part. — Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin,' 

 1881 (1883), 74 (head of Norton Sound, Kotzebue Sound, and Bering Strait, 

 Alaska); Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 160 (Sitka, etc., Alaska; lower 

 Anderson R., Mackenzie). — McLenegan, Cruise 'Corwin,' 1884, 117 (upper 

 Kowak R., Alaska). — Stearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 118 

 (L'Anse Claire, Labrador). — ^Tttrneb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vui, 1885, 242 

 (nearApotok I., Hudson Strait; Northwest R.,Ungava); Contr. Nat. Hist. 

 Alaska, 1886, 166 (Ft. Yukon).— (?)Bah, Auk, ii, 1885, 383 (San Bernardino 

 Co., California, 3 specs.)- — ^American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 412, part.— (?)Coopee, Auk, iv, 1887, 91 

 (West Grove, Ventura Co., California, 1 spec, Nov.). — (?)Thorne, Auk, 

 iv, 1887, 364 (Colorado).— (?)Cooke, BuU. Col. Agric. CoU., no. 37, 1897, 

 85 (Ft. Lyons, Loveland, and South Platte, Colorado, autumn and winter); 

 no. 44, 1898, 162 (Arkansas VaUey, e. Colorado). — ^Thompson, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiii, 1890, 551 (Manitoba, resident; habits). — Palmer (W.), Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 262 (St. Johns, Newfoundland).— Clarke (W. E.), 

 Auk, vii, 1890, 322 (Ft. ChurchiU, Hudson Bay).— Hargitt, Cat. Birds 



" See remarks on p. 15, footnote. 

 6 Twenty-seven specimens. 

 Eighteen specimens. 



