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U S T. E. R EXP. AND SURVEYS— ZOOLOGY— GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Whence obtained. 
Stri-tcli 
Wing. 
.do . 
Calcasieu, La 
St. Louis, Mo 
Independence, Mo. 
Fort Riley, K.T. .. 
Fort Lookout, N. T . 
Fremont on I'latte . . 
Nemaha river, N. T 
do 
April 15, 
Dec. 3, 
Feb. 12, 
May 24, 
1854 
May 8, 
June 3, 
June 19, 
June 16, 
June 20, 
June 13, 
June 20, 
1857 
.do. 
17.50 
17.00 
G. WUrdemann. 
Lieut. Bryan. .. 
W. M. Magraw , 
Lieut. Bryan 
W. S.Wood... 
Dr. J.G.Coope 
W. S. Wood . . 
.do. 
May 31, 
July 1, 
April 23, 
Dr. Hammond 
Dr. Hammond and 
J. X. de Vesey. 
Lieut. Warren 
17.50 
17.00 
Above Yelluivstulie ! 
do 
Milk river, N. T. .. 
do 
Black Hills, N.T... 
Nortli Platte river.. 
July 25. 
do 
Aug. 25, 
Aug. 3, 
Aug. 12. 
18.12 
17.00 
17.00 
17.25 
18 00 
5.75 
5.50 
5.87 
5.25 
5.37 
MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS, Bonap. 
California Woodpecker. 
Picusformicivorus, Swainson, Birds Mex. in Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 439, (Mexico.)— Vigors, Zool. Blossom, 1839, 23, 
(Monterey.) — Nuttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840. 
Mtlantrpes formicivorus, Bp. Conspectus, 1850, 115.— Heermann, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. 2d series, II, 1853, 270.— 
Cassin, Ulust. II, 1853, 11 ; pi. ii.— Newberry, Zool. Cal. & Oregon Route, 90 ; P. R. 
R. Surv. VI, 1857. 
Pints melanopogon, Temminck, PI. Color. IV, (1829?) pi. 451 — Wagler, Isis, 1829, v, 515. 
? Melampicvs Jlavigula, Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, 542. 
Sr. Ch. — Fourth quill longest, third a little shorter. Above and on the anterior half of the body glossy bluish or greenish 
black ; the top of the head and a short occipital crest red. A white patch on the forehead, connected with a broad crcscentic 
collar on the upper part of the neck by a narrow isthmus, white tinged with sulphur yellow. Belly, rump, bases of primaries, 
and inner edges of the outer quills, white. Tail feathers uniform black. 
Female with the red confined to the occipital crest, the rest replaced by greenish black ; the three patches white, black, and 
red, very sharply defined. Length about 9 inches ; wing about 5. 
Hab. — Coast region of California and south ; in northern Mexico, eastward almost to the G ulf of Mexico ; also on Upper Rio 
Grande. 
In most specimens one or two red feathers may be detected in the black of the breast just 
behind the sulphur yellow crescent. The white of the breast is streaked with black ; the 
posterior portion of the black of the breast and anterior belly streaked with white. The white 
of the wing only shows externally as a patch at the base of the primaries. 
