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in winter).— Ralph and Bags, Trans. Oneida Hist. Soc, iii, 1886, 123 (Her- 

 kimer and Hamilton covmties, New York, rare resident). — Chadbouhne, 

 Auk, iv, 1887, 104 (White Mts., New Hampshire, 3960 ft.).— Thompson, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 550 (n. e. Manitoba).— Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xviii, 1890, 279 (Big Moose Lake, Moose R., Hamilton Co., and Her- 

 kimer Co., New York; etc.).— Cook, Bull. 54, Mich. Agric. Exp. Sta., 

 1893, 88 (n. peninsula and Gogebic district, Michigan, visitant).— Bendiee, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 77.— Mokkbll, Auk, xvi, 1899, 251 (Nova 

 Scotia, March). — (?)Robbins, Auk, xvii, 1900, 173 (Beverly, Massachu- 

 setts, Jan. 21, 1899 a).— Norton, Proc. Portland Soc. N. H., ii, 1901, 153 

 (Northwest R., Labrador; descr. young). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 39 

 (Parry Sound and Muskoka, n. Ontario, winter); xix, 1902, 79 (Toronto, 

 Ontario, Nov. 16, 1901).— Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 112 

 (Severn R., Ft. Churchill, etc., Keewatin). — Townsbnd and Allen, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxiii, 1907, 877 (Labrador).— Roberts, in Wilcox's Hist. 

 Becker Co., Minn., 1907, 176 (Lake Itasca, breeding in 1902). — ^Nash, Vertebr. 

 Ontario, 1908, Birds, p. 50 (resident iu northern, rare winter visitant in 

 southern, Ontario). — (?) Swaeth, Condor, xiii, 1911, 211 (Admiralty Islands, 

 s. Alaska, resident). 



[Picoides] araericanus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 181, no. 8537. — Coues, Key 

 N. Am. Birds, 1872, I94, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 217, part. 



P[icoides\ americaniis Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 122 (unusual 

 influx into e. Massachusetts, winter ot 1860-61). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 2d ed., 1884, 485, part. — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 287, part. 



Apternus americanus Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 306. 



PicMS americanus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 15. 



Picoides tridactylus, var. americanus Baird, Bbewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 532, part. 



Picoides americanus ... a. americanus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 284. 



Picoides americanus americanus Bangs, Auk, xvii, April, 1900, 132, part (crit.). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 194. — 

 (?)Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vii, 1911, 69 (Freshwater Bay, Chicha- 

 goff Island, Alaska; crit.). — Saunders, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 37 (Bear Canyon, 

 Gallatin Co., Montana); Condor, xiv, 1912, 26 (Pipestone Creek, Jefferson 

 Co., Montana, Oct. 6, 1909). 



Picoides tridactylus americanus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, March 27, 

 1880, 6, 189; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 368.— Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Om. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 232 (Adirondack region, New York, resident); Auk, i, 1884, 

 295 (Point de Monts, Quebec). 



[Tridactylia\ am^ricana Heine and Rbichbnow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 

 213 (Canada; Labrador). 



Pieus arcticus (not of Swainson) DeKay, Zool. New York, 1844, 190, pi. 17, 

 fig. 36. 



[Picoides americanus.] Var. fasdatus Baebd, in Cooper's Om. Calif., 1870, 385, 

 part. 



Picoides americanus fasdatus (not of Chapman, 1902) Pheble, North Am. Fauna, 

 no. 27, 1908, 382, part (Ft. Anderson, Mackenzie; some specimens from Ft. 

 Simpson; crit., etc.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3d 

 ed., 1910, 190, part. 



a The vernacular name "Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker" being coupled with 

 the technical name Picoides americanus, it is uncertain whether this species or P. 

 arcticus is meant. 



