120 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



In Missouri the Hairy Woodpecker is a fairly common resi- 

 dent, generally distributed, though nowhere numerous. On the 

 breeding grounds it is most conspicuous during the mating or 

 wooing season in early spring, but becomes very secretive and 

 silent when incubation begins and appears then scarcer than it 

 really is. After the young are fullj^ grown and can take care of 

 themselves, the species takes to roaming and visits all kinds of 

 trees and places, even in thickly settled neighborhoods. In 

 winter we sometimes see individuals which strike us as being 

 decidedly larger and whiter than those we are used to seeing; 

 they may be visitors from more northern regions with a ten- 

 dency to an approach toward the subspecies leucomelas, which 

 inhabits British North America. 



*393b. Dryobates villosus audubonii (Swains.). Southern 

 Hairy Woodpecker. 



Picas audubonii. 



Geog. Dist. — South Atlantic and Gulf States, north to North 

 Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, west to southeastern Texas. 

 Non-migratory and much more common than the other form, 

 said to be nearly as common in the south as the Downy Wood- 

 pecker is in the North. 



In Missouri this small edition of Hairy Woodpeckers, or at 

 least a near approach to it, inhabits the overflow I'egion of the 

 St. Francis and Little Rivers in Dunklin and Pemiskot Counties. 

 To one who is accustomed to the common Hairy of the middle 

 and northern states, the difference in size and color is striking. 

 Mr. B. T. Gault, who took a specimen in Dunklin Co., in March, 

 1894, writes : "It compares favorably with the Texas and Florida 

 birds, both in size and markings, with the exception of the bill, 

 which is of the same length as that of the more northern bird 

 {villosus), though not as broad and heavy. With that one ex- 

 ception they might easily be pronounced as very good specimens 

 of the Southern Hairy W." 



*394c. Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swains.). Downy 

 Woodpecker. 



Picus pubescens. 



Geog. Dist. — Of the six subspecies of Downy Woodpeckers, 

 this is the one which inhabits the Middle and Northern States, 

 as well as the southern provinces of Canada from Newfoundland 



