224 Birds of Colorado 



Key of the Species, 



A. Back black, with a longitudinal central white patch. 



a. Outer tail-feathers plain white. 



a^ Larger ; wing about 5 ; wing-coverts unspotted. 



D. V. monticola, p. 224. 

 b^ Smaller, wing about 4-8 ; wing-coverts profusely white- 

 spotted. D. villosus, p. 225. 



b. Outer tail-feathers barred with black ; smaller wing, about 4-0. 



D. p. homorus, p. 226. 



B. Back black, cross-barred black and white. D. s. bairdi, p. 227. 



Rocky Mountain Hairy Woodpecker. 

 Dryobates villosus monticola. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 393e— Colorado B^cords— Allen 72, p. 151, 163 ; 

 Aiken 72, p. 206 (Piciis villosus harrisi) ; Henshaw 75, p. 386 ; Scott 

 79, p. 95 ; Drew 81, p. 140 ; 85, p. 17 ; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 196 

 Morrison 86, p. 36 ; 88, p. 107 ; 89, p. 67 ; Beckham 87, p. 121 

 Kellogg 90, p. 87 ; Bendire 92, p. 53 (£». v. hylosc&piis) ; Lowe 94, p. 268 

 Anthony 96, p. 32 ; Cooke 97, pp. 82, 207 ; Henderson 03, p. 235 ; 09 

 p. 231 ; Oilman 07, p. 154 ; Rockwell 08, p. 164 ; Warren 09, p. 14 

 Hersey & Rockwell 09, p. 118. 



Description. — Male — Above black ; a red nape band and a white 

 stripe down the middle of the back ; wing-quills spotted with white 

 on the outer web, but the tertiaries and coverts plain black ; outer 

 tail-feathers plain white ; below, patch on the lores, a stripe behind 

 the eye and below the eye to the nape white, not smoky ; iris brown, 

 bill dusky horn, legs dusky greyish. Length 9-25 ; wing 5-2 ; tail 3-6 ; 

 culmen 1'2 ; tarsus -95 



The female is slightly smaller — wing S-O, and has no red nuchal band. 

 A young bird has the crown mostly red. 



Distribution. — The Rocky Mountain region from Montana to northern 

 New Mexico, east to north-oast Nebraska, west to the Uintah Mountains 

 of Utah. 



In Colorado the Rocky-Mountain form of the Hairy Woodpecker 

 is a common resident from the plains to timber line. In the winter 

 it is chiefly met with at lower elevations in the plains and foothills, 

 while in summer it resorts to the pino forests between 8,000 and 10,000 

 feet, but it is by no means strictly confined within these limits. 



The following are notices of its occurrence : Estes Park (Kellogg), 

 Boulder co., breeding in the mountains, wintering in tho valley (Gale 

 and Henderson), Mount Lincoln, near timber line (Allen), Barr Lake 

 district (Hersey and Rockwell) ; El Paso co., commoner in winter 



