42 PROCEEDINGS OF TtfE ACADEMY OF [1893. 



130. Glaucidium gnoma californicum. California Pygmy Owl. 

 Numerous west of Cascades. 



131. Ceryle alcyon. Kingfisher. 



Cosmopolitan and resident on the coast all winter. 



132. Dryobates villosus leucomelas. Northern Hairy Woodpecker. 



In a series of eight skins, one, a young female, lacks the white 

 spotting on wing coverts characteristic of leucomelas. It is also 

 much smaller than the rest, whose measurements correspond to those 

 given by Mr. Ridgway for leucomelas. 



133. Dryobates villosus harrisii. Harris's Woodpecker. 



Three, of nine specimens, have unspotted wing coverts, the rest 

 are spotted in varying degrees but less so than darkest examples of 

 villoms. An adult male from Nisqually, with unspotted wing cov- 

 erts, lacks the sooty suffusion of under parts in a remarkable 

 degree. 



134. Dryobates pubescens orececus. I'atchelder's Woodpecker. 



Mr. Fannin includes D. pubescens as a " common resident east of 

 and including Cascades," a statement which my series of twenty- 

 one specimens fails to prove. Four interior specimens contained in 

 the Streator collection are classed as intermediates between pubes- 

 cens and orececxis. On examination I find that these agree with 

 mine in the lack of distinct markings of lower tail coverts, one of 

 these and six of the others showing traces of streaks on that part. 

 In lack of white markings of wing coverts and secondaries the 

 majority of the series agree with orececus, six being intermediate 

 between that race and pubescens. 



:; 135. Xenopicus albolarvatus. White-headed Woodpecker. 



This bird has a claim to notice in this paper, solely on evidence 

 of woodsmen at Vernon, who assert they sometimes see a " little 

 white-headed sapsucker " in the forests at the head of Lake Okana- 

 gan. The striking difference between this and any other species of 

 Woodpecker makes this testimony worth notice. 



136. Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis. Red-naped Sapsucker. 



Generally distributed and breeding throughout the interior. Did 

 not see it in Washington nor on the British Columbia coast. 



137. Sphyrapicus ruber. Red-breasted Sapsucker. 



A male, shot near Tacoma was the only one seen. 



