CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS CORY. 489 



Picus lecontei JONES, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., IV, 1848, p. 489, pi. 17 (Lib- 

 erty County, Georgia; abnormal specimen). 



Dendrocopus pubescens HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 238, 

 part (Florida). 



Dryobates pubescens pubescens RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 

 1914, p. 228. 



Range: Lower southeastern United States, from Florida, Georgia 

 and South Carolina and westward in the Gulf states to southeastern 

 Texas and casually north to Kansas, southeastern Illinois, Tennessee 

 and Virginia. Intergrades with D. p. medianus in the northern edge of 

 its range (eastern Kansas, southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, 

 Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland). 



f2o: North Carolina (Raleigh) i; Florida (Orange Co. 2, Punta 

 Rassa 3, West Jupiter 5, Kissimmee R. i, Lake Worth i, Pine Island i, 

 "Florida" i); Louisiana (Buras 3); Mississippi (Vicksburg 2). 



*Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson). DOWNY WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



Picus (Dendrocopus) medianus SWAINSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831, p. 308 

 (New Jersey). 



Dryobates pubescens medianus BREWSTER Auk, 1897, p. 82, in text; RIDG- 

 WAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 233. 



Picus pubescens (not of Linnaeus) BAIRD, BREWER and RIDGWAY, Hist. Nat. 

 N. Am. Bds., II, 1874, p. 509, part (Kodiak, Alaska); NELSON, Rep. Nat. 

 Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, p. 156, part (Kodiak). 



Range: Eastern North America from south eastern Virginia, high- 

 lands of North and South Carolina, northern Georgia, eastern Tennes- 

 see, southern Illinois and Indiana, eastern Kansas, etc., northward to 

 about the northern border of eastern United States and maratime pro- 

 vinces of Canada and eastern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, 

 Prince Edward Island, etc., and westward to eastern border of the 

 Great Plains and casually to Colorado (Denver) ; also occurs locally on 

 Kodiak Island, Alaska." 



t74: New York (Bonnville i); Massachusetts (Riverside 2, Natic 

 2); Connecticut (Hartford 5); Maine (Upton 2, "Maine" 2); Prince 

 Edward Island i ; Ohio (Garrettsville i ; Columbus 2) ; Indiana (Bluff- 

 ton 2) ; Illinois (Fox Lake 3, Grand Chain 7, Mound City 6, Olive Branch 

 5, Henry 3, Joliet i, Lake Forest i, Waukegan i, Cairo i, Worth i, 

 Beach i, Addison i, Lewiston i, Chicago i); Wisconsin (Beaver Dam 

 13); Iowa (Knoxville 6, Waterloo i, Kingsville i). 



m Cf. Ridgway, /. c., 1914 (footnote). Specimens from Kodiak, Alaska are ap- 

 parently indistinguishable from typical D. p. medianus. 



