BIRDS OF COLORADO. 
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ual, “Northern and Eastern North America and sporadically 
Western North America (Colorado, California, etc.).” The 
birds there referred to by Mr. Ridgway as being found in the west 
are now considered by him as belonging to homorus. As the 
authority for Maj. Bendire’s remarks cannot be now learned 
they are entered here to call attention to the record. 
394b. Dryobates pubescens homorus. Batchelder’s 
Woodpecker. 
Resident; common. Hardly as common in Colorado as 
its eastern representative is in the Mississippi Valley and much 
less common than Cabanis’s Woodpecker. To this form are 
now referred all Colorado birds. It ranges in winter from the 
plains to 10,000 feet and breeds from the plains to 11,500, but 
is more common at the higher altitude in summer and at the 
lower in fall and winter. 
396. Dryobates scalaris bairdi. Texan Woodpecker. 
Resident; rare and local. It is rather strange that this 
bird should have been overlooked by previous collectors, as W. 
P. Lowe writes that it occurs regularly in Pueblo and Huerfano 
Counties. More coinmonlv seen in spring and fall and oc- 
casionally an old bird in winter. Mr. Lowe has taken several 
of the birds and the skins have been positively identified, so 
there can be no doubt of its occurrence as he states. This is 
the first and only Colorado record for the bird and carries its 
known range over three hundred miles to the eastward. 
401b. Picoides americanus dorsalis. Alpine Three-toed 
Woodpecker. 
Resident; not common. Throughout the mountains from 
about 8,000 to 12,000 feet. Occasionally a few feet lower, but 
remains even in winter in the pine belt chiefly at about 10,000 
feet. It is not common anywhere but is scattered quite gen- 
erally through the mountains. D. D. Stone found a nest with 
five young birds near Hancock, July 10, 1883, at about 10,000 
feet. (O. & O. IX. 1894, 9 and 10.) 
402. Spyrapicus varius. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. 
Migratory; rare. The eastern variety scarcely coming west 
to the Rocky Mountains. It was taken by C. E. Aiken, pre- 
sumably in El Paso County, and there is a single specimen in 
the Maxwell Collection. 
402a. Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis. Red-naped Sap- 
sucker. 
Summer resident; common. Breeds from the plains to 
12,000 feet, but the great bulk of nests are made between 8,000 
and 9,000 feet. Arrives in April but eggs are not found until 
the first half of June. 
