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142. Asyndesmus lewisi Riley. 



Lewis Woodpecker. 



Synonyms — Celeus torqiiaius; Melanerpes torquahts; Asyndesmus torqua- 

 tus. 



Status — Mentioned by Merriam (1890, p. 92) as breeding in the pinon and 

 cedar belt on San Francisco Mountain. Elsewhere in Arizona it has been noted 

 as an erratic visitant, present in numbers one year, and absent the next, but apt to 

 occur almost anywhere. 



143. Centurus uropygialis Baird. 



Gila Woodpecker. 



Synonyms — Melanerpes uropygialis. 



Status — A common resident of the Lower Sonoran zone in southern and 

 western Arizona. In the eastern part of the state it does not range north of the 

 Salt River, but it ascends the Colorado at least to Fort Mohave ; of occasional oc- 

 currence at Fort Whipple (Coues, 1866a, p. 54). It is practically restricted to 

 such parts of the valleys of the Gila River and its tributaries as lie in the Lower 

 Sonoran zone, and to the valley of the lower Colorado River. 



144. Colaptes cafer coUaris Vigors. 



Red-shai^ted Flicker. 



Synonyms — Colaptes ruhricaUts; Colaptes mexicanus; Colaptes auratus mexi- 

 camis; Colaptes cafer. 



Status — Common resident, breeding in Upper Sonoran and Transition. 

 Breeding records from the Santa Catalina, Mogollon, Hualpai, Huachuca and 

 Santa Rita mountains. During the migrations and in the winter it is quite gener- 

 ally distributed. 



145- Colaptes ehrysoides mearnsi Ridgway. 



Mearns Gilded Flicker. 



Synonyms — Colaptes ayresii; Colaptes ehrysoides. 



Status — A common resident of the Lower Sonoran zone in parts of south- 

 ern and western Arizona, extending east to the Santa Rita and the east slope of 

 the Santa Catalina mountains, north to Fort Mohave. Its range is almost ab- 

 solutely^ coextensive with that of the giant cactus, the easternmost limit of the 

 species, some twenty-five miles southeast of Tucson, being abruptly defined along 

 the line nlarking the edge of the territory where the cactus grows. West of the 

 Santa Rita Mountains in the giant cactus region, the gilded flicker is abundant, 

 east of thatVange it is unknown. On the Colorado River it occurs at the few 

 points where the cactus is found, but it has also been taken in different associa- 

 tions, as at Fort Mohave (Cooper, 1861, p. 121). 





