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Pachuca), Guanajuato (Silao), and Coahuila (La Ventura; Carneros; 

 Jardl); Mexico (Valley of Mexico; Tetelco, TIalp&m; Teteico, 

 Xochimilco) ? 



Pjcus bairdi Malheebb, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 118 (Mexico;" ex Sclater, manu- 

 script); iii, 1861, pi. 27, figs. 7, 8.— Sclatbb, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 333, part 

 (n. Mexico); Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1864, 117 (near City of Mexico). — 

 I Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 196, part (northern Mexico). — 



Geat, List Birds Brit. Mus., Capit. and Picid., 1868, 48 (north Mexico). 



(?)P[iaM] hairdii Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 19 (n. Mexico). 



[Picus] bairdi Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 186, no. 8609. 



('!)D[ictyopipo] bairdi Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 76 (n. 

 Mexico). 



D[ryobates] scalaris bairdi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 285, part. 



Picus scalaris (not of Wagler) Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 34 

 (Puente Colorado, Puebla). — (?)Hbereea, La Naturaleza, (2) i, 1891, 179 

 322 (Valley of Mexico). 

 |/ Dendrocopus scalaris Harqitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 246, part 

 ;■ (Atlixco, Pinal, and San Miguel Molino, Puebla; Tetelco de TIalpam, and 



Tetelco' de Xochimilco, Mexico?). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1895, 435, part (Guanajuato; plains of San Luis Potosf; Moctezuma, 

 San Luis Potosi; Puente Colorado, Puebla; Valley of Mexico, Tetelco, and 

 Chimalpa, Mexico). 



Dryobates scalaris bairdi Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., xvi, 1894, 785 (Ahualulco, 

 San Luis Potosi). — Oberholsbb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., xli, 1911, 140, 158 

 (monogr.). 



•' DRYOBATES STRICKLANDI (Malherbe). 



STKICELAND'S WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Crown dark sooty brown, seal brown, or very dark 

 sepia, fading into paler sooty brown on forehead and nasal plumes; 

 occiput and upper nape bright poppy or vermilion red; upper parts 

 dark sooty brown or seal brown, the median portion of back and 

 whole rump, broadly barred or transversely spotted with white, the 

 outer webs of primaries (except outermost) with quadrate spots of 

 white, these becoming smaller and less numerous on inner (proximal) 

 quills; upper tail-coverts and tail blackish brown or brownish black, 

 the two lateral rectrices (on each side) mostly white, with several, 

 usually broad, bars of black on distal portion, the third with more 

 or less of white on distal portion, mostly on outer web; a broad 

 supra-auriciilar streak of white and a broad suborbital and sub- 

 auricular stripe of the same, originating at rictus and extending to 

 side of neck, where involving the greater part of that area; auricular 

 region very dark sooty brown, the malar region similar, forming a 

 conspicuous, usually broad and uninterrupted, stripe of that color; 

 under parts duU white, heavily streaked, spotted, and barred with 

 very dark sooty brown, the markings mostly longitudinal on foreneck 



"^Type locality fixed by Oberholser (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xli, 1911, 159) as 

 State of Hidalgo, south-central Mexico. 



