198 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATION.VL MUSEUM vol.86 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS MEDIANUS (Swainson): Northern Downy 



Woodpecker 



In a considerable area in the northwestern part of the State inter- 

 mediate specimens of the downy woodpecker occur that are barely 

 within the size range of the northern form. Specimens of this type 

 are represented from the region about Reelfoot Lake, as indicated in 

 the following list where the wing measurements are enclosed in 

 parentheses following the locality and date of the birds to which they 

 pertain : Tiptonville, October 19 (2 males. 90 and 93.9 ; 2 females, 91 

 and 92) ; Samburg, October 14 (91.9) ; and Reelfoot Lake, April 29 

 (90.5). Specimens in this same category from other localities in- 

 clude a male from the Cumberland River, in Stewart County, 2 miles 

 west of Indian Mound, October 27 (wing 91.5), a female from 7 miles 

 north of Dover in the same county, October 30 (92.4), and a female 

 from much farther south, in Wayne County, 9 miles north of 

 Waynesboro, May 11 (wing 92 mm). Further material from this 

 area is required to establish more certainly the form found there. 

 For the present it is considered to be medianus. 



As indicated in the account of D. p. puhescens^ there seems to be 

 some mixing in the downy-woodpecker population at a few points, 

 due perhaps to migratory movement or to specimens taken at dif- 

 ferent altitudes. This is true in western Lincoln County 6 miles 

 east of Frankewing, where males taken November 5 and 6 measure 



93.8 and 94 mm, though others have the size of puhescen.s, and at 

 Rock wood where one female secured by W. H. Fox, March 13, 1885, 

 measures 95.5 mm, though others are pubescent. 



In the mountain section in the northeast, from the Great Smoky 

 Mountains northward, all the birds examined are definitely large 

 and can be referred without hesitation to true medimms. These 

 include the following (with the wing measurements again given in 

 parentheses) : Cross Mountain, near the line of Anderson and Camp- 

 bell Counties, August 15, 1908, taken by A. H. Howell (male 95.7, 

 female 95) ; Bean Station, Grainger County, Octoljer 1 (male 95) ; 

 3,800 feet elevation in the Holston Mountains, near Shady Valley, 

 June 3 and 4 (male 95.5, female 92.7 and 93.8) ; 5,000 to 6,200 feet 

 elevation on Roan Mountain, September 13 to 22 (male 94.2, females 



93.9 and 96.1) ; 6,300 feet elevation on Old Black Mountain, Great 

 Smoky Mountains, June 25 (male, 95.5) ; Inadu Knob, near Cosby, 

 June 21 (female 92.1). 



DRYOBATES BOREALIS (Vieillot) : Red-cockaded Woodpecker 



Perrygo recorded one of these birds near the Cumberland River, 7 

 miles north of Dover on October 30 but did not collect it. There 

 are three in the National Museum taken by W. H. Fox at Rockwood, 

 a pair on April 11, 1884, and a male on April 22, 1885. 



