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Brewster on a Collection of Arizona Birds. 
[January 
( $ and 9 , May 1 6) ; Tucson ( $ and 9 , June 8) ; Camp Low- 
ell ( 9 June 21, three $ and one 9 June 22). 
124. Pious villosus harrisi { Audi ) Allen. Harris’s 
Woodpecker. 
40, $ ad., Chiricahua Mountains, March 14. Length, 9.10; extent, 
15.60; wing, 4.93. “ Iris brown. Common here among pines.” 
125. Pious scalaris Wagl. Texan S^psucker. — Com- 
mon. A nest containing four eggs was found April 19, at 
Tucson. 
A male taken April 15, at Cienega Station, differs from the other Ari- 
zona specimens as follows : The red of the head is restricted to a stripe 
above and behind the eye and to a broad band on the occiput, the entire 
forehead and crown being black finely spotted with white. In these 
respects it agrees with descriptions of var. lucasanus, but the tail-markings 
are as in scalaris proper. A female in first plumage (No. 441, Tucson, 
May 26) has the crown dull red, the occiput black, the plumage beneath 
thickly spotted, and the dorsal bars dull and ill-defined. 
126. Picus stricklandi Malh. Strickland’s Woodpeck- 
er. — The explorations of the past season developed little of im- 
portance regarding this Woodpecker, save the fact of its occur- 
rence among the Santa Rita Mountains, where Mr. Stephens 
found it nearly as abundant as in the Chiricahua range. His 
efforts to obtain its eggs were unsuccessful, but a nest containing 
young was discovered May 16. k *The shell of the tree (a syca- 
amore) was very hard, and as I had only a pocket knife to cut 
with, I did not attempt to open the hole. The voices of the 
young sounded as if they might be about two weeks old.” The 
above date would indicate that this Woodpecker is a rather early 
breeder, an inference which is further sustained by the fact that 
a female, taken April 1, “would have laid in two or three weeks.” 
The fourteen specimens collected show a remarkable amount of varia- 
tion in respect to the spotting of the under parts. In some examples the 
markings are small, tear-shaped, and confined chiefly to the sides and a 
scarcely continuous band across the breast, the median line of the body 
being nearly immaculate, and the throat absolutely so. In others the 
feathers of the throat (but not of the chin) have fine brown shaft-streaks, 
and the remainder of the under plumage is so thickly and coarsely spotted 
that its light ground-color is often nearly obliterated. Between these 
extremes are many intermediate styles, scarcely any two birds being 
exactly alike. The increase in the size and number of spots is usually 
correlated with a decrease in the amount of white on the tail. Normally 
the outer feathers have three white spaces continuous across both webs ; 
the second pair two. But with heavily-spotted birds the white on the 
second feather is sometimes confined to a single pair of sub-terminal spots 
