284 BtlLLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Sphyropicus] ruber Shakpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 212, part. 



C[lc^scopus] ruler Cabanis and Heine, Mub. Hein., iv, 1863, heft 2, 82 



(California). 

 [Cladoscopus] ruber Heinb and Rbichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 215 



(California). 

 Sphyrapicus ruber ruber (not of Grinnell, 1909) American Obnitholoqists' 



Union, Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 191. — ^Willett, Pacific Coast Avifauna, 



no. 7, 1912, 56 (Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., breeding). 

 Sphyropicus varius var. ruber Ridgway, Am. Joum. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 456, 



footnote, part; v, Jan., 1873, 40, footnote, part. — Baird, Bhewer, and 



RiDGWAT, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 544, part. — Hbnshaw, Rep. Om. 



Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 259 (Tej6n Mts. and near Kemville, s. Cali- 

 fornia, breeding). 

 Sphyrapicus varius ruber Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 173, 174 



(Sierra Nevada); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 189; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 



1881, no. 3696, part. 

 Sphyropicus varius ruber Coubs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 448, part. — Mbabns, 



Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, iv, 1879, 195 (Ft. Klamath, s. e. Oregon). 

 S\j)hyropieus] v[arius] rubor Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed, 1884, 486, part. 

 [Sphyrapiciis varius] c. ruber Cotjbs, Birds Northwest, 1874, 286, part (synonymy 



and range). 

 Sphyropicus varius, ^. ruber Ridgway, in Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 



March 21, 1879, 429 (Murphys and Big Trees, Calaveras Co., California). 

 Sphyrapicus varius daggetti Grinnell, Condor, iii, Jan., 1901, 12 (Pasadena, Lob 



Angeles Co., California; coll. F. S. Daggett); Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 



1902, 38 (range); Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., v, 1908, 63 (San Bernardino Mta., 



7,000-«,500 ft.; habits; crit.).— Kellogg, Condor, xiii, 1911, 119 (Trinity 



and Shasta counties, California, in summer). 

 Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis (not S. nuchalis Baird) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, 84 



(San Clemente I., California, 1 spec, Oct. 11; see Willett, Pacific Coast 



Avifauna, no. 7, 1912, 56). 



SPHYRAPICUS RUBER NOTKENSIS (Suckow). 



HORTHERir KED-BREASTED SAFSrCKER. 



Similar to S. r. ruber, but slightly larger and with coloration darker 

 and brighter; the red of head, neck, and chest averaging brighter, 

 and whitish spots on back usually smaller (sometimes obsolete). 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 187-217 (203); wiag, 123.5-133.5 

 (128.6); taU, 72-81.5 (78.9); cuhnen, 24-27 (25.3); tarsus, 20-22 

 (21.1); outer anterior toe, 15-16.5 (15.7)." 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 196-230 (209); wmg, 125.5-133 

 (130.5); tail, 78.5-85 (81.5); cuhnen, 23.5-27 (24.9); tarsus, 19.5- 

 21.5 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 15-17 (15.7)." 



Northwest coast district, breeding from western Oregon (Beaver- 

 ton ; Point Grove ; Portland ; Washington County) ; northward through 

 western Washington (Cowlitz; Okanogan County) and British 

 Columbia (including islands) to southern Alaska (Wrangel; Skagway; 

 Kupreanof, Kuiu, Prince of Wales, Etolin, Wrangell, and Admiralty 



" Ten specimens. 



