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ranges north throughout the State. A male taken in the Dismal 

 Swamp area near Sunbury, Gates County^ on April 21 has the wing 

 115.3 mm., being obviously small. From near Engelhard a male 

 taken on October 13 measures 113.5 mm., and three females secured 

 on October 13 and 14 register 110.5, 111.7, and 112.0 mm., respectively. 

 In a pair from 6 miles west of Clinton, Sampson County, the male 

 has the wing 115.3 and the female 110.4 mm. A female from Willis- 

 ton, Carteret County, measures 111.6 mm. 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS MEDIANUS (Swainson) : Northern Downy Woodpecker 



On examination of a very good series of birds this form of the 

 downy woodpecker is found to have a much more extensive range in 

 North Carolina than had been supposed. Birds from the mountain 

 area in the west belong here without question. A male taken about 

 June 1890 at Waynesville by P. L. Jouy has the wing 93.7 mm., ex- 

 ceptionally large for this far south. A male from an elevation of 

 1,450 feet 8 miles southwest of Murphy, June 9, measures 92.0 mm., 

 and a fully grown immature female from nearby, shot on June 14, 

 records 91.5 mm. Another fully grown immature bird, a male, from 

 5.000 feet elevation on Rocky Ridge, 13 miles west of Franklin, has 

 the wing 92.2 mm. A pair from 4,800 feet on Elk Knob, 7 miles 

 north of Boone, measure 93.5 in the male and 91.4 in the female. 

 Skins from the Catawba River west of Statesville, October 3, 4, and 

 7, a male with the wing 92.5 and two females, wing 91.6 and 90.5, 

 are also to be placed here. The second of these females verges toward 

 the southern bird, which must range lower down in the valley of 

 this stream. Skins from Hogan Creek 7 miles northeast of Reidsville 

 belong here without question, males taken September 18 and 19, 

 measuring 92.3 and 92.8, and a female, September 18, measuring 91.9 

 mm. A male from Madison taken on September 21 in the same 

 region measures 92.5 mm. A male that I shot 4 miles west of Winton 

 on December 2, 1934, with the wing 91.4 mm., may indicate that 

 medianus goes clear across the northern part of North Carolina to 

 the uplands above the Dismal Swamp area, though this specimen 

 may possibly be a migrant. 



There are two others that are assumed to be migrants^ as they 

 come from within the range ascribed to pubescens but have the size 

 and purer white color of medianus^ viz, a female (wing 92.8 mm.) 

 from the Dismal Swamp area 7 miles west of South Mills taken on 

 April 14, and a male (wing 91.9 mm.) from North Harlowe, Craven 

 County, secured November 20. 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS PUBESCENS (Linnaeus) : Southern Downy Woodpecker 



The specimens at hand indicate a distribution for this form ex- 

 tending eastward from the valley of the Pee Dee River near the 



