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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
Range. —Boreal forests of Rocky Mountain region from Idaho and Montana 
south to high mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 
State Records. —While the Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker, as its name implies, 
inhabits the upper slopes of the high mountains near timberline, it also occurs and 
breeds at much lower altitudes. In the Zuni Mountains it is fairly common between 
8,000 and 9,000 feet, where it was noted June 15, 1909 (Goldman); July 21, 1905 
NEW MEXICO 
Map 24. Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker 
Triangles mark all known records 
(Hollister); and August 6-17, 1911 (Dearborn). [Several breeding birds were seen 
on top of the Chuska Mountains, 8,800-9,000 feet, June 30 and July 2, 1918 (Wet- 
more).] Specimens were taken at Lake La Jara, 7,500 feet, September 18, 1904; 
in the Manzano Mountains, at 8,100 feet, October 10 and December 10, 1903 
(Gaut); and in the Jemez Mountains, 8,500-9,000 feet, September 1, 1906 (Bailey). 
The above localities represent probably the lower limit of the range and thence 
the species is found in the Pecos Mountains to 12,000 feet, August 15, 1903, in the 
Taos Mountains to 11,400 feet, July 20, 1904, in the Mogollon Mountains at 10,500 
