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P[icus] gairdnerii Reichenbach, Handb. Scaneores, Picinae, 1854, 375. 



[Pirns] gairdneri Ghat, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 184, no. 8591. 



Dryobates pubescens gairdnerii Ridqway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii,* no. 23, 



Sept. 2, 1885, 355; Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 596.— Ameeican Okni- 



THOLOGiSTS' UNION, Check List (and 2d ed., 1895), 1886, no. 394o, part.— 



Bendieb, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 58, part. 

 D[ryobates] pubescens gairdnerii Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 283, part. 

 [Trichopicus] gairdneri Bonapaete, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 123 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 8). 

 Piais (Trichopicus) gairdneri Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxvii, 



part. 

 Dlryobates] gairdneri Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 64 (Oregon; 



Washington). 

 [Picus pubescens.] Var. gairdneri Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 194, part. 

 Picas pubescens, var. gairdneri Ridgwat, Am. Joum. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 456. — 



Baied, Beewee, and Ridgwat, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 512, part. 

 Picus pubescens gairdneri (not of Ridgway, 1875) Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



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



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

 P{icus\ p{ubescens\ gairdneri Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 483, part. 

 Dryobates pubescens gairdneri Anthont, Auk, iii, 1886, 165 (Washington Co., 



Oregon).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 138 (Westminster, 



Mt. Lehman, Kalama, and Vancouver I., Brit. Columbia; crit.). — ^Mehriam, 



North Am. Fauna, no. 16, 1899, 114 (Sisson, n. California).— Fishee (W. K.), 



Condor, iv, 1902, 69 (diagnosis).— Andbhson and Geinnbll, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. PhUa., 1903, 7 (Siskiyou Mts., n. California; crit.). — Ameeican Oeni- 



thologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 187. — Swaeth, Univ. Calif. 



Pub. Zool., X, 1912, 34 (crit.). 

 [Picus pubescens] b. gairdneri Coubs, Birds Northwest, 1874, 282, part. 

 [Dendrocopu^ pubescens.] Subsp. a. Dendrocopus gairdneri Haegitt, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 241, part (Brit. Columbia; Vancouver I.; Walla 



Walla, Columbia R., Albany, Umatilla Agency, and Dalles, Oregon). 

 [Dendrocopus] gairdneri Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 214. 

 P[icus] gardneri Geat, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 435. 

 Dryobates pubescens fumidus Matnaed, Omith. and Ool., xiv, no. 4, April, 1889, 



58 (a. Vancouver I., Brit. Columbia; coll. F. B. Webster). 

 (l)Picits meridionalis (not of Swainson) Hbeemann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 



pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 57 (mts. of n. California). 



DRYOBATES NUTTALLH (Gambel). 



HUTTALL'S WOODPECKER. 



AduU male in autumn and winter. — Forehead and greater part of 

 crown black, more or less conspicuously streaked (except sometimes 

 on forehead) with white, the streaks of narrowly guttate or cuneate 

 form; extreme posterior portion of crown, occiput, nape, and upper 

 hindneck bright red (poppy red to scarlet vermilion), this color 

 separated, on each feather, from a dusky basal area by a small V- 

 shaped or sagittate spot of whitish; lower hindneck, upper back, 

 lesser wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts, and four middle rectrices uni- 

 form black; rfest of back, together with scapulars and rump, bro.adly 

 barred with black and white, the bars of the two colors approximately 



