BIRDS OF NORTH AKD MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Balanoaphyraformicivora aculeata Eidgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 



24, 1911, 35. 

 [Melanerpesformicivoms.] Subsp. a, Melanerpes melanopogon'KA.nGiTT, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 151, part (localities in Arizona and New Mexico; 



Sonora; Jesus Maria, San Jos6, Refugio, Tomochic, Knos Altos, and Sonora, 



Chihuahua; Ciudad Durango, Durango). 

 ■ Melanerpes formicivorus melanopogon Thayer and Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. 



N. H., xix, Feb. 26, 1906, 19 (La Chumata, n. e. Sonora, breeding; crit.). 

 [Melanerpes] melanopogon Shaepb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 209, part. 



BALANOSPHYRA FORMICIVORA BAIRDI (Ridgway). 



CALIFOSNIA WOODPECKER. 



Similar to B. f. aculeata, but decidedly larger, uniform black of 

 chest still more extended, and lower throat more strongly yellow. 



AduUmale.— Length (skins), 210-245 (225); wing, 137-149 (143.2); 

 tail, 73-88 (79.5); culmen, 26-31.5 (29.8); tarsus, 20.5-24.5 (22.4); 

 outer anterior toe, 17-19 (18.2)." 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 215-244 (227); wing, 135-149 

 (143.4); tail, 69.5-85.5 (80.7) ; culmen, 26-33 (28.3) ; tarsus, 20.5-24 

 (21.8); outer anterior toe, 16.5-19.5 (18.4).» 



Pacific coast district of United States, from northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia (Santo Tomas, July; Tecate Valley, June; Nachiguero Valley, 

 June; Burro Canon, June; Hansen's Ranch; Ensenada; San Pedro 

 Martir Mountains) to northwestern Oregon; straggler to south- 

 central Oregon (Fort Klamath). 



Piais formidvonis (not of Swainson) Lesson, Compl. Buffon, ix, 1837, 318. — 

 ViGOBS, Zool. Voy. "Blossom," 1839, 23 (Monterey, California). — Nuttall, 

 Man. Om. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 2d ed., 1840, 682 (mts. near Santa 

 Barbara, California). 



M[elan^pes] formicivorus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 444. 

 ; Melanerpes formicivorus Gambel, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1847, 56 (Califor- 

 nia). — Cassin, lUustr. Birds CaUf., Tex., etc., 1856, 7, part, pi. 2 (CaUfomia; 

 habits). — ScLATBR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 127 (San Jos6 Valley, CaU- 

 fomia). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific E. R. Surv., -vi, 1857, 90 (Sacramento 

 Valley, California to Columbia R.; habits). — Baird, in Rep. Stansbury's 

 Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 333 (Santa Barbara); Rep. Pacific R. R. 



" Twenty specimens. 



