BIRDS OF KoaTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 155 



■wing-coverts, and proximal portion of inner webs of remiges immacu- 

 late white or very pale yellow; adult male with entire pileum (includ- 

 ing the conspicuous, pointed, occipital crest) and a broad malar 

 stripe bright red, the adult female with only the crest red, the fore- 

 head, crown, and malar region being grayish brown or olive. 

 Range. — North America. (Monotypic ?) "* 



KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OP PHLCBOTOMTJS PILBATUS. 



a. Smaller (wing averaging less than 230, culmen averaging less than 50). 

 b. Smaller (wing averaging 226.1 in male, 220.8 in female; culmen averaging 46.5 

 in male, 43.8 in female); coloration blacker or less slaty. (Middle and south- 

 em Florida.) Phloeotomus pileatus floridanus (p. 159). 



66. Larger (wing averaging 228.4 in male, 221.6 in female; culmen averaging 49.7 

 in male, 44.9 in female); coloration more slaty blackish. (Southeastern 

 United States, including northern Florida, north to Maryland, southern 

 Indiana, Illinois, and Missoxuri, etc.) 



Phloeotomus pileatus pileatus (p. 155). 



aa. Larger (wing averaging more than 230, culmen averaging more than 50). 



5. Larger (wing averaging 243.3 in male, 236.7 in female; culmen averaging 58 in 



male, 52 in female; coloration more slaty (more so than in P. p. pileatus); 



whitish tips to longer primaries always well-developed. (Northern United 



States, east of Rocky Mountains, north to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 



Kewatin, Mackenzie, etc Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola (p. 160). 



56. Smaller (wing averaging 237 in male, 228.1 in female; culmen averaging 54.4 

 in male, 48.7 in female); coloration blacker or more sooty; whitish tips to 

 longer primaries usually much reduced in size, sometimes obsolete. (North- 

 west coast district, from British Columbia to northern California, east to 

 Idaho and northwestern Montana, and south to southern Sierra Nevada.) 



Phloeotomus pileatus piciuus (p. 162). 



PHLffiOTOMUS PILEATUS PILEATUS (Linnaus). 



PILEATED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum, including conspicuous occipital crest, bright 

 poppy red, somewhat darker (approaching crimson) on forehead; a 

 rather narrow postocular stripe of yellowish white, and beneath 

 this a broad auricular stripe of slate color or brownish slate, involving 

 also suborbital region (narrowly) and posterior portion of loral 

 region; upper portion of nasal tufts grayish with terminal portion 

 of bristle-Uke feathers blackish, this connected with the slate color 

 of orbital region by a narrow line of dusky; lower portion of nasal 

 tufts dull pale yellowish; a sharply defined stripe along lower por- 

 tion of lores dull yellow (buff-yellow, maize yeUow or naples yellow), 

 passing gradually into yellowish white or pale prknrose yellow 

 posteriorly, where forming a broad band beneath the slaty auricu- 



" A South American (Argentine) species, Phloeotomus scAufei Cabanis (Campephilus 

 sAulzi Sclater and Hudson, Campephilits pileatus var. schulzi Frenzel, Dryotomus 

 sohulzi Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 517) has been referred to this genus. 

 I have not seen a specimen, but on geographical grounds alone strongly doubt that 

 it is congeneric with P. pileatus. 



