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'124. Melanerpes torquatus, (Wils.). — Lewis's Woodpecker. 



This is a common resident of Stockton and Marysville, and appears to 

 be more numerous in the valleys than in the foot-hills or the Upper 

 Sierras, where, however, it occasionally occurs. 



Those I have seen in the pine forests were apparently traveling in 

 straggling scattered flocks. I have not found it at Big Trees in breeding 

 season. 



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*125. Melanerpes formicivorus, (Swains.). — Calif ornian Woodpecker. 



This is an abundant constant resident of the valleys and foot-hills. 

 I shot one at Big Trees in August, but considered it a straggler. 



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*126. Colaptes auratus, 3. mexicanus, Swains. — Bed-shafted Flicker. 



This is a^common constant resident at Stockton, Murphy's, and Marys- 

 ville, and is a common summer resident of the pine forests. 



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*126«. Colaptes auratus, y. hybridus, Baird. — '/Hybrid" Flicker. 



The plumage of probably half the numerous Flickers which I shot in 

 January and February, 1878, at Marysville was variously intermediate 

 between that typical of the supposed species G. mexicanus and C. au- 

 ratus. Those with uniformly golden shafts were unquestionably the 

 rarest of all. Quite a large number of those I had the good fortune to 

 shoot in January had well-developed red nuchal crescents, and the iris 

 was usually dark blood-red.t No trace of blade in the cheek-patches 

 was observed in any of them. At Stockton, in March, 1878, I found it 

 somewhat difficult to find a specimen in which the shafts were all yellow, 

 or in which this color even predominated, though tin 1 , number of speci- 

 mens taken here at different times satisfied me that a hybrids" were not 



*"IriN milky white, tinged with pale pink or carmine ; feet pale pea-green." — Note 

 to one of the above specimens.— E. E. 



t This is frequently the color of the iris in very adult specimens of both mexicanus 

 and auratus, and is, perhaps, a mark of high maturity, possibly a mere individual 

 peculiarity. — R. K. 



