The range of the red-cockaded woodpecker extends =north= to northeastern Oklahoma (Copan); southern Missouri (Shannon County); Tennessee (Beersheba and Allardt); and North Carolina (Red Springs and Beaufort). =East= on the Atlantic coast from North Carolina (Beaufort) to southern Florida (Long Pine Key). =South= on the Gulf coast from the Florida Keys (Long Pine Key) to southeastern Texas (Houston). =West= to Texas (Houston); northwestern Louisiana (Mansfield); probably western Arkansas (Mena); and eastern Oklahoma (Tulsa and Copan). _Casual records._--It seems probable that this species may breed or upon occasion has bred in the vicinity of Raleigh, N. C., as it was noted there several times in April from 1890 to 1898. It also has been reported as seen at Piney Creek, N. C., on July 6, 1932, and on September 12, 1933. A specimen in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was collected near that city in 1861; one in the collection of the Ohio State University was taken near Columbus, Ohio, on March 15, 1872. According to Stone (1909) the collection of George N. Lawrence contained a specimen taken near Hoboken, N. J. _Egg dates._--Florida: 30 records, April 3 to May 28; 15 records, April 29 to May 20, indicating the height of the season. South Carolina: 14 records, April 27 to May 28. DRYOBATES SCALARIS SYMPLECTUS Oberholser TEXAS WOODPECKER HABITS This is the subspecies that was formerly known as Baird’s woodpecker, _Dryobates scalaris bairdi_, which was then understood to be the resident bird of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. But when Dr. H. C. Oberholser (1911b) revised the _scalaris_ group, the name _bairdi_ was restricted to the bird of central Mexico, and the Texas bird was described, as a new subspecies, under the above name. It was characterized as follows: Resembling _Dryobates scalaris cactophilus_, but male smaller; upper parts lighter, the white bars wider, the black bars narrower, and with more white on pileum; and sides of breast less often _streaked_ (mostly spotted). * * * This new subspecies differs from _Dryobates scalaris bairdi_, from Hidalgo, much as does _Dryobates scalaris cactophilus_, except that it is smaller, and still more extensively white on all the upper parts. This race reaches its extreme development in Texas; and specimens from central Tamaulipas and central Nuevo Leon are not so light above, showing a tendency toward _Dryobates scalaris bairdi_. They are also somewhat more smoky below. There is, however, no difference in size between examples from Texas and Tamaulipas.