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Hoffman. Rather common in suitable localities 

 throughout the northern regions. (Nevada). 



Ridgway. Between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky 

 Mountains ; common in suitable localities. One was 

 obtained on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, near 

 Carson, April 4, 1868. Very rare throughout western 

 Nevada, but became abundant in the eastern portion of 

 the State. 



Cooper, 1870. Fort Mojave, February 20, 1861, a 

 female specimen — the only one I saw. 



Fort Yuma. Heermann. — Not rare. 



74. Sphyrapicus ruber (Gmel.) Red-breasted Sap- 

 sucker. 



Big Laguna, San Diego County. F. E Blaisdell. — 

 November 12, a specimen. 



Henshaw, 1876. It breeds about as far south as Fort 

 Tejon, as I took a young bird in the mountains in 

 August, and saw several more. Later, in October, I took 

 a pair near Kernville. 



Cooper, 1870. I have not seen any south of Santa 

 Clara, and there only in the mountains of the Coast 

 Range in early spring. 



Contra Costa and Alameda counties. W. E. Bryant. — 

 Rare winter visitant. 



Berkeley. T. S. Palmer. — Tolerably common acci- 

 dental visitant. Two or three individuals seen every 

 winter. January 30, February 1 and March 10, 1886. 



Sebastopol. F. H. Holmes. — Tolerably common win- 

 ter visitant. October 9, 1884, first; March 17 following, 

 last seen. 



Central California. L. B. — Common summer resi- 

 dent in the fir forest of the Sierra. Like nearly all the 

 Californian woodpeckers it is found lower down in win- 

 ter, then becoming rather common in the foothills, al- 



