Juncos, jun 1991 Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris Blackrock Borge, Zuni Indian Reservation, 3/4 mile E. of Blackrock, McKinley Co., New Mexico. Elevation 6435 feet. June 20 In the company of Al Schaefer, I found a Ladder-backed Woodpecker in the mid-section of this extensive cottonwood-willow woodland. It is the first one for me. It was a female woodpecker, clinging against the side of a small Cottonwood, perched up on its stiff tail, small chisel-like gray bill, hard red crown, dark eye, off-white face & dark outline to auricular area; blackish hindneck; "Ladder-back," i.e. alternating horizontal bars of white & very dark brown & flecked, lily-croets of faded very dark brown, & conspicuous white spots. Faded foreax feathers also dark brown, with white markings arranged as irregular white lines across folded wing. Midwing feathers all dark broadly; littoral 2-3 feathers whitish, indistinctly barely barred & flecked. Vertically, bird was pale buff. Throat unmarked, head & sides spotted, only lightly spotted on crest. Legs red & gray. Call & whiny & stuttering quality of Nuttall's Woodpecker. This is the first record W. of continental divide locally. I suspect that this bird did cross the divide from the small population on the SE side of the Zuni Mountains. It is, I guess, possible that the bird originated in the Grand Canyon country & came up the Little Colorado River & Zuni River drainages. They could be the same subspecies, regardless of their Sonoran or Chihuahuan Desert origin.