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A PROBABLE HYBRID OF DRYOBATES. 

 Coloration — Contiuiied. 



D. nattallii. 



Supposed hybrid. 



D. gairdnerii. 



Tertials . 



Sides of breast. 



Sides 



Flanks 



Under tail-coverts 



Broadly banded or trans- 

 versely spotted with 

 white, nearly all of the 

 white srpots crossing or 

 touching the shaft. 



Mark ed with large wedge- 

 shaped, tear-shaped, 

 and otherwise formed 

 spots and streaks of i 

 black. 



Marked with large black 

 spots, mostly of round- 

 ish form. 



Conspicuously barred and 

 transversely spotted 

 with black. 



Broadly barred with 

 black. 



Irregularly spotted with 

 white, none of the spots 

 touching the shaft. 



Marked with a very few, 

 mostly indistinct, black 



streaks. 



Sparsely and indistinctly 

 streaked, like sides of 

 breast. 



Indistinctly spotted and 

 streaked with blackish. 



More narrowly barred 

 with black on longer 

 featjiers, marked with 

 sagittate spots on 

 shorter ones. 



"With still fewer white 

 spots, none of them 

 touching the shaft. 



Entirely immaculate. 



Entirely immaculate. 

 Entirely immaculate. 



Marked with sagittate 

 spots on longer feath- 

 ers, the shorter ones 

 immaculate. 



