88 Wyoming Experiment Station. 



WOODPECKERS. 



The notes on the Woodpeckers in the state are anything 

 but satisfactory. Many of the records were made long before 

 the varieties were established. It is very confusing when Coues 

 tells us that Hayden took a Harris's woodpecker at Laramie 

 peak in i860, and then turn to the check list and find that 

 Harris's Woodpecker is a Pacific coast variety. On account 

 of this and a great many other problems in the proper arrange- 

 ment of the data pertaining to this group I have placed the 

 various records where I considered that they might naturally 

 belong. In selecting this method I trust it will avoid confu- 

 sion and that ultimately the data may be placed under the 

 proper headings. 



The Woodpeckers as a group are very desirable birds, in 

 no way detrimental to settlement or individuals and being of 

 the greatest value, since they feed upon insects that are in- 

 jurious to all kinds of trees. 



393 d. Dryobates villosus hyloscopus (Cab.). 

 Cabanis's Woodpecker. 

 Resident ; not common. In all probability a portion of 

 the records referred to the Harris's Woodpecker belong to this 

 variety. But few collectors have noted them, and as a rule 

 have referred it to some other form. Thus far the Wyoming 

 records have been made by the National Museum only, which 

 are as follows : Nos. 38270 and 38272, taken at Laramie peak 

 by Exp. Expd. West of the Missouri River ; No. 10789, taken 

 at Fort Bridger by South Pass Wagon Road Expd. 



393 e. Dryobates villosus monticola AnTH. 

 Rocky Mountain Hairy Woodpecker. 

 Resident ; common. But very few collectors have rec- 

 orded this variety in Wyoming ; but in all probability nearly 

 all of the records pertaining to Harris's Woodpecker should 

 be placed here. The following notes have been placed under 

 this heading conditionally : Merriam, Yellowstone ; Drexel, 



