286 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



spotted or broadly streaked with dark brown. Sab. South- 

 eastern Mexico (Jalapa, etc.). 



D. stricklandi (Malh.). Strickland's Woodpecker. 1 

 a 2 . Back without any white. Upper parts plain brown or light sepia, the quills, 

 also inner webs of secondaries, spotted with white; whole breast and sides 

 spotted with dark brown, the flanks and under tail-coverts barred or trans- 

 versely spotted with the same. Adult males with a rather narrow occipital 

 band of red, as in D. villosus and D. pubescens ; young males with nearly 

 whole top of head red. 

 b\ Larger: Length 7.40-8.40, wing 4.40-4.65 (4.49), tail 2.55-2.95 (2.81), exposed 

 culmen .90-1.05 (.98). Sab. Southern Arizona and adjacent portion of 

 northwestern Mexico. 



398. D. arizonse (Hargitt). Arizona Woodpecker. 2 

 b". Smaller: Length 6.25, wing 4.10, tail 2.60, exposed culmen .78. Sab. South- 

 western Mexico (Sierra Madre of Colima). 



D. arizonse fraterculus Kidqw. Colima Woodpecker. 3 



Genus XENOPICUS Baird. (Page 280, pi. LXXXIV., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Adult male : Head, neck (except hinder part), upper part of chest, and basal 

 portion of quills white ; occiput with a transverse patch or broad band of bright 

 red ; rest of plumage uniform black. Adult female : Similar to the male, but with- 

 out any red on head. Young male : Similar to adult, but black of a duller shade, 

 and red of head consisting of a squarish patch on middle of crown, instead of a 

 band across occiput. Length about 8.90-9.40, wing 5.00-5.10, tail 4.00^4.05. Eggs 

 .94 X -70. Sab. Mountains of Pacific coast, including Sierra Nevada (both slopes), 

 from Washington Territory to southern California. 



399. X. albolarvatus (Cass.). White-headed Woodpecker. 



Genus PICOIDES Lacepede. (Page 280, pi. LXXXIL, fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Above black (head glossed with bluish), the quills 

 spotted with white (back also varied with white in some species) ; a broad white 

 stripe on side of head beneath eye and ear-coverts, and beneath this a more or less 

 distinct black stripe ; lower parts white, the sides and flanks barred with black ; 

 lateral tail-feathers white (without distinct bars in American species) ; adult male 

 with yellow patch on crown. 



1 Picue (Leuconotopieus) etricklandi Malh., Rev. Zool. viii. 1845, 373. (Not Dryohates etricklandi of the 

 A. 0. U. Check List, No. 398.) 



2 Picue arisonce Hargitt, Ibis, April, 1886, 115 ( = No. 398, " Dryohates etricklandi Malh." of the A. 0. U. 

 Check List, but not Picus etricklandi Malh.). 



8 New subspeoies ; type, No. 30105, ? ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Sierra Nevada of Colima, April, 1863, J. Xantus, 



