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DRYOBATES SCALARIS SYMPLECTUS Oberholser. 



TEXAS WOODPECKER. 



Similar to D. s.' scalaris but decidedly larger; white bars of back, 

 (tc, broader, purer white; under parts decidedly paler, much less 

 )uffy. • 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 154-180 (165); wing, 98-107 (102.2); 

 ;ail, 53.5-61 (57.1); exposed cukaen, 20-24 (22.3); tarsus, 16-18.5 

 ;i7.6); outer anterior toe, 12-13.5 (12.6)." • 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 152-173 (161); wing, 96.5-105 

 ;i00); tail, 52.5-60.5 (56.9); exposed culmen, 18-21 (20); tarsus, 

 L6.5-18.5 (17.3); outer anterior toe, 11-13 (12.1). » 



Middle and northern Tamaulipas (Forl6n; VUlagrdn; Soto la 

 Marina; Mi6r; Camargo; Matamoras; Nuevo Laredo; Xicotencatl; Rio 

 Pil6n; Victoria; San Fernando de Presas), Nuevo Le6n (Rodriguez; 

 Santa Catarrna; Monterey; Rancho San Juan; BoquUlo) and north- 

 ern Coahuila (Sabinas) northward through southern, central, and 

 57estern Texas (east of Pecos River and, mostly, west of 97th merid- 

 ian) to southeastern Colorado (Pueblo, Baca, Otero, and Huerfano 

 counties). 



Picus scalaris (not of Wagler) Woodhottse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 89 (San Antonio and e. of Pecos R., Texas). — Kbnneelt, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 3, 1859, 22, part (San Antonio). — Batbd, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 94, part (Rio Grande and San Pedro, 

 Texas; Tamaulipas; Nuevo Leon); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 79, part; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 5, part, pi. 3 (Tamaulipas; 

 Nuevo Leon; Rio Grande and San Pedro, Texas). — Hebkmann, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., X, no. 1, 1859, 18, part (Texas); x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 57, part 

 (Texas).— Deessek, Ibis, 1865, 313, 468 (s. Texas).— Elmot, Illustr. New and 

 Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, 7, part.— Coopek, Orn. Calif., 1870, 379, part.— 

 CotjES, Check List, 1873, no. 297, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 434, part. — Baied, 

 Bebwee, and Ridgwat, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 515, part, pi. 50, figs. 

 4, 5.— McOaulet, Rep. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 1877, 679 

 (McClellan and Mulberry creeks, etc.. Red River VaUey, Texas). — ^Meeeill, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 150 (Ft. Brown, Texas; descr. eggs). — Sbnnbtt, 

 Rep. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 38 (Brownsville and Hidalgo, 

 Texas); v, 1879, 415 (Lomita Ranch, Texas). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iii, 1880, 189, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 363, part.— Beown 

 (N. C), Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 40 (Boeme, Kendall Co., Texas, 

 resident). — Nehelinq, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 170 (Houston, etc., 

 Texas). — Ogilbt, Sci. Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc, iii, 1882, 58 (Navarro Co., 

 Texas, resident; habits). 



[Picus] scalaris Cotjes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 192, part. — Sclatee and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 99, part. 



Picm {Dyctiopicus) scalaris Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxviii, 

 part. 



"Nineteen specimens, from Texaa (10), northern Tamaulipas (3), Nuevo Le6n (5), 

 and Coahuila (1). 

 * Nineteen specimens, from Texas (10) and Tamaulipas (9). 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 17 



