238 Birds of Colorado 
The Red-bellied Woodpecker is a straggler to eastern Colorado 
only. It was seen by Z. X. Snyder near Greeley in 1895, and Aiken 
procured a single male close to Limon on May 23rd, 1899. This specimen 
is now in, the Colorado College Museum. 
Genus COLAPTES. 
Bill rather weak for the family ; culmen slightly curved and strongly 
ridged, but the lateral ridges absent and the nostrils exposed ; toes four, 
the outer posterior distinctly shorter than the outer anterior, the inner 
posterior (hallux) very short ; plumage variegated, but the under-parts 
always with round black spots on a pale ground. 
An American genus with three species in the United States as well 
as several geographical subspecies and, hybrids. 
Key oF THE SPECIES. 
A. Lining of the wings and tail yellow. C. a. luteus, p. 238, 
B. Lining of the wings and tail red. C. c. collaris, p. 239. 
Northern Flicker. Colaptes auratus luteus. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 412a—Colorado Records—Thorne 87, p. 264; 
Morrison 89, p. 145; Allen 92, pp. 21-44; Osburn 93, p. 212; Cooke 
97, pp. 85, 162, 208 ; Burns 00, pp. 1-82; Felger 05, p. 421 ; Markman 
07, p. 156. 
Description.—_Male—Crown, back and sides of the neck ashy-grey, 
with a transverse scarlet nuchal band; back and exposed parts of 
wings olive, transversely banded with black; rump white, upper tail-_ 
coverts black and white; primaries and tail-quills black with yellow 
shafts (except the two median tail-feathers) and yellow linings below ; 
sides of the face, throat and fore-neck vinaceous, with a black moustache 
patch and a black crescent on the breast; posteriorly pale vinaceous 
to dirty white, spotted with black ; iris brown, bill and feet dark-slaty. 
Length 12:0; wing 6-0; tail 4-25; culmen 1-4; tarsus 1-1. 
The female resembles the male, but has no black moustache patch. 
Distribution.—Hastern and northern North America from Alaska, 
Yukon and Labrador south, chiefly east of the Rocky Mountains, to 
Kansas and North Carolina. 
In Colorado pure-bred examples of the Yellow Flicker are seldom 
met with, though the intermediates or hybrids are common enough. 
Osburn, obtained a typical Yellow Flicker at Loveland, September 
24th, 1889, and Thorne another at Fort Lyon in December, 1883. 
An example was recently collected by Felger at Hall Valley in Park co. 
at an elevation, of 10,000 feet, October 24th, 1904, showing that it some- 
times extends into the mountains. Markman found a nest on the Big 
