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indistinctly barred with darker, the flanks broadly and rather dis- 

 tiactly barred with dull gray and white; under tail-coverts white, 

 more or less broken by variable markings of dusky grayish; abdomen 

 duU pale yellowish or dull yellowish white. 



CaJifomia; breeding in Transition Zone from northern California 

 to mountaias of southern California, east to south-central Oregon 

 (Fort Klamath), and eastern slope of Sierra Nevada; south in winter 

 to northern Lower California (Ensenada; Ros^rio). 



[Pirns] ruber Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 429 (based oa Red breasted Wood- 

 pecker Latham, Syn. i, pt. 2, p. 562, no. 9). — Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 

 228.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 186, no. 8616, part. 



Picas ruber Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., ix, 1815, 160. — Vigors, ZooL Voy. 

 "Blossom," 1839, 23 (Monterey, California).— AuDUBOiJ, Om. Biog., v, 1839, 

 179, part, pi. 416, figs. 9, 10; Sjmopsis, 1839, 181, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., 

 iv, 1842, 261, part, pi. 266.— Nttttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Land 

 Birds, 2d ed., 1840, 681.— Herrmann, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 

 270 (California); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 57 (mts. of Cali- 

 fornia). — Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 132, part; iii, 1861, pi. 31, figs. 1, 

 2. — SuNDEVALL, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 32, part (California). — Gbat, List 

 Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 51. 



P[icus] ruber Wagleb, Sys. Av., 1827, Pious, sp. 15. 



Melanerpes ruber Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 39, part. — Gambbl, 

 Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1847, 56 (California). — Sclatbr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 127 (San Jos6 Valley, California); 



M[elanerpes] ruber Sclatbr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 2. 



[Melanerpes] ruber Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 115, part. 



[Pilwm/nAis] ruber Bonapabte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 123 (Consp. Volucr. Zy- 

 god., 1854, 8), part. 



Sphyrapieus ruber Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, pp. xxviii, 104, 

 part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 87, pait. — CotrBS, Check List, 1873, no. 

 3037, part.— Henshaw, Rep. Om. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1877, 1319 (e. 

 slope Sierra Nevada) . — RroowAT, Om. 40th Parallel, 1877, 549 (w. slope Sierra 

 Nevada) . — American ORNn-HOLOGiSTs' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed. , 

 1895), no. 403, part. — Cooper, Auk, iv, 1887, 91 (Saticoy, Califomia, Nov.). — 

 Bbndirb, Auk, V, 1888, 229, part (geog. range; habits, etc.) ; Life Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1895, 92, part.— Merrill and Brewster, Auk, v, 1888, 255 (Ft. Kla- 

 math, s. e. Oregon). — Bryant, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, 1889, 286 (Ensenada, 

 Lower Califomia). — Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 48 (Tej6n 

 Pass, s. Califomia, July; s. Sierra Nevada, Aug., Sept.). — Grinnell (J.), 

 Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 25 (Los Angeles Co., Califomia, Oct.- 

 March).— Merrlam, North Am. Fauna, no. 16, 1899, 114 (Mt. Shasta). — 

 Van Dbnbukg, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, xxxviii, 1899, 163 (Los Gatos and 

 Palo Alto, Califomia, Nov., Dec.).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, 

 581 (Mt. Sanhedrin, Mendocino Co., Califomia; crit.). — ^Thayer and Bangs, 

 Condor, ix, 1907, 136 (Rosario, Lower Califomia, Nov.). — Bbal, Bull. 34, 

 U. S. Biol. Surv., 1910, 21 (food); Bull. 37, 1911, 31 (food). 



[Sphyrapieus] ruber Cotjes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 195, part. 



S[phyrapicus] ruber Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 289, pait. 



Sphyrapieus ruber Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Ft. Tej6n, 

 Califomia). — Cooper, Om. Cal., 1870, 392, part. — ^Baird, Brewer, and 

 p: Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 51, fig. 6 (California).— Hargitt, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 194, part. 



