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Adult female.— Length (skins), 141-163 (152); wing, 88-95 (92.2); 

 tail, 51-60.5 (55.8); exposed culmen, 14.5-17 (15.5); tarsus, 16-17 

 (16.2); outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.5)." 



Upper Austral and Transition zones of California, except on north- 

 west coast and southeastern desert mountains. 



Pieus meridionalis (not of Swainson) Nttttall, Man. Om. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., 



i, 1840, 690 (California).— Gambel, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 55 



(California). — (?)Hbeemann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Suiv., x, pt. vi, no. 2, 1859, 



57 (mts. of n. California). 

 Picus gairdneri (not of Audubon) Bated, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 91, part 



(Petaluma, Sacramento, and San Francisco, CaHfomia). — ^Xantus, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Ft. Tejdn, California).— Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 

 . 377 (cMefly). — Bated, Bebwee, and Ridgwat, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii,1874, 



521 (Santa Cruz I., California, breeding; measurements of eggs). 

 Pi(MS {Trkhoplcus) gairdneri Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxvii, 



part. 

 [Picas pubescensi] Var. gairdneri Cotjes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 194, part. 

 Picas pubescens, var. gairdneri Baied, Beewee, and Ridgwat, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 512, part. 

 Picas pubescens gairdneri (not of Ridgway, 1875) RnsGWAT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mub., 



iii, 1880, 188, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 361o, part.— Coues, Check 



List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 441, part. 

 P[ieas] p[ubescens'] gairdneri Cotjes, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 483, part. 

 Dryobates pubescens gairdnerii American Oenithologists' Uoton, Check List, 



1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 394o, part.— Townsbnd (C. H.), Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 205 (Baird, Shasta Co., California, breeding). — ^Emerson, 



Bull. Calif. Ac. Sci., ii, 1887, 426 (Poway Valley, San Diego Co., California, 



breeding). — Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 47 (Tehachapi Pass, 



Grapevine Mts., and Panamint Mts., California, breeding). — Bendiee, Life 



Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 58, part. — Geinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena 



Ac. Sci., 1898, 25 (Los Angeles Co., California). — Van Denburg, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., xxxviii, 1899, 162 (Santa Clara Co., CaUfomia, breeding). 

 D[n/o5ate«] pubescens gairdnerii Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 283, part. 

 Dryobates pubescens gairdneri Emerson, Auk, iii, 1886, 94 (Ventura Co., California, 



resident). — ^Mailuaed, Condor, iii, 1901, 122 (San Benito Co., Califomia, 



resident). 

 Picas pubescens, p. gairdneri Ridgwat and Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 



March 2, 1879, 428 (Marysville, Murphys, and Big Trees, California). 

 {Picas pubescens'] b. gairdneri Coubs, Birds Northwest, 1874, 282, part. 

 [Dendrocopus pubescens."] Subsp. a. Dendrocopus gairdneri Hargitt, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 241, part (Monterey, Los Alamos, San Bernardino, 



Visalia, and Walker Basin, Califomia). 

 Picus gardineri Sclateb, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 127 (San Jos6 Valley, 



Califomia). 

 Picas turati Malherbb, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 125, ui, 1861, pi. 29, figs. 5, 6, 7 (near 



Monterey, Califomia; coll. Malherbe). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1863, 202 (crit.). 

 [Picas] turati Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 185, no. 8597. 

 P[icus] turati Stjndevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 18 (crit.). 

 D[ryobates] turatii Cabanis and Hbine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 65 (Monterey, 



Califomia). 



o Ten specimejig. 



