Texan Woodpecker 227 
Texan Woodpecker. Dryobates scalaris bairdi. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 396—Colorado Records—Cooke 97, pp. 83, 162; 
Warren 06, p. 21. 
Description.—Male—Above regularly barred, with black and white ; 
crown black, specked with white and overlaid by crimson ; tail-covert 
and four central tail-feathors black, outer ones barred black and white, 
below, including a stripe through the eye and the frontal bristles smoky 
grey, whiter posteriorly ; the flanks and abdomen spotted with black. 
Length 6-0; wing 4-1; tail 2-5; culmen -85; tarsus -7. 
The female has no crimson on the head, which is plain black. 
Distribution. From, western Texas, southern Colorado and south-east 
California south to northern Mexico. 
The Texan, Woodpecker was first noticed in Colorado by Lowe, who 
informed Cooke that it was a not uncommon resident in Pueblo and 
Huerfano cos., and that he believed that they nested in the St. Charles 
cafion near Beulah. Warren obtained a pair near Springfield in Baca 
co., and recently Aiken has received examples from Mr. Wright, taken 
in the Fountain Valley some twenty miles north of Pueblo. It is no 
doubt a resident throughout the south-eastern part of the State at low 
or moderate elevations. 
Genus PICOIDES. 
With three toes only, the inner posterior or hallux being absent ; 
plumage black and white, rather similar to that of Dryobates, but the 
head-patch of the male yellow, not red. 
A circumpolar genus confined to the northern parts of the Old and 
New Worlds; two species and one additional subspecies in the 
United States. 
Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker. 
Piciodes americanus dorsalis. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 401b—Colorado Records—Allen 72, pp. 163, 
180; Henshaw 75, p. 391; Scott 79, p. 95; Drew 81, p. 141; 85, 
p. 17; Stone 84, p. 9; Morrison 88, p. 107; 89, p. 67; Kellogg 90, 
p. 87; Bendire 92, p. 80; Lowe 94, p. 268; Cooke 97, pp. 83, 207; 
Bangs 00, p. 135; Henderson 03, p. 107; 09, p. 231. 
Description.—Male—Above black, a white stripe down the middle 
of the back not interrupted by conspicuous barring; primaries and 
secondaries with white spots, but none on the coverts; central tail- 
feathers black; lateral ones black and white; crown-patch golden- 
yellow ; rest of the head black, with a few white spots and conspicuous 
postocular and malar white stripes; below white, a few black spots 
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