Analecta Ornithologica 
Leonard Stejneger 
XXIV. On the proper Generic Name of the Pile- 
ated Woodpecker and Allies. 
The generic name Hylotomus for the Pileated Woodpeckei 
cannot stand, because preoccupied by Hylotoma Latieille 
(given to an hymenopterous insect in 1804). Cabanis was 
aware of the fact and changed the name in 1862 to Ceophloeus , in 
which genus he placed lineatus , scapularis , erythrops , and 
pileatus , with the first mentioned as ‘typus generis.’ The fol- 
lowing year, however, he separated pileatus from the others, 
bestowing upon it the name Phloeotomus. As Mr. Ridgway 
has convinced me, pileatus and lineatus are strictly congeneric, 
and, consequently/the generic appellation of the latter applies 
as well to the former. 
Genus Ceophloeus* Cab. 
<p 83 1 . —Dry atom us Swainson, Faun. Bor. Am. II, pp. 303 & 104 (type 
P. martins'). 
<1849. — Dryopicos Malherbe, Mdm. Acad. Metz, 1849, P- 3 2 ° ( same 
type)- 
<1850. — Dryopicus Malherbe, Classif. Picin. Sept. 1850 (same type). 
X 1854. — Driopicus Bonaparte, Consp. Zyg. Estr. At. Ital., No. 8, May 
1854, p. 8 (type pileatus'). 
=1858. — Hylatomus Baird, B. N. Am. p. 107 (type pileatus). 
=1862. — Hylotomus Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn, 1862, p. 176 (emend.). 
=1862. — Ceophloeus Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 176 (type lineatus). 
>1863. — Phloeotomus Cabanis, Mus. Hein. IV. p. 102 (type pileatus). 
At first sight it might seem as if Malherbe’s Dryopicos would 
be available, but a closer investigation shows that this author 
only emended Boie’s Dryobates and Swainson’s Dryotomus to 
suit his new nomenclature, in which all the four-toed Wood- 
peckers had names ending in ‘ picus ’ or ‘■picos’( !). The two 
generic names just referred to have expressly martins for type, 
and Dryopicos may therefore be considered as having the same 
type. 
The North American species will stand as 
R. 371. Ceophloeus pileatus (Linn.) Cab. Pileated 
Woodpecker, 
the authorities being 
1758. — Picus pileatus Linn., S. N. 10 ed. I. p. 113. 
1862. — C\_eophloeus~\ pileatus Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 176. 
Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington. D.C. , Dec. 1, 1884. 
* Deriv. Kea = I split, (|>\oi.o's = bark. 
Auk, 2, Jan., 1886. p. 
The Pileated Woodpecker. By Coahoma [=F. G. Dabney]. 
Ibid.: Sept. 6, p. 122. For, & Stream, Voi. 81 
1104. The Pileated Woodpecker. By Dr. E. sterling. 
i 3 , p. 44. Wot. -Js Strea®. 
1717. 
Ibid . , Aug. 
The Pileated Woodpecker. By J. W. Jacobs. Ibid . , JNo. 4 „ , TT , 
00 - -- T Atut, vil. Jan. 
1890.P.U 
Bay State Qo¥' 7 ' 
April, 1888, p. 31, 
1 458 ■ Occurrence of the Pileated W 0 o dp e c ke r (Hylotomus pileatus) in 
Eastern Massachusetts. By Foster II. Brackett. Ibid.. Vol. Ill, p. 17. 
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