: NOTES ON BIRDS OF KENTUCKY — WETMORE 541 



In the present collection three skins from the cypress swamps near 

 South Carrollton in Muhlenberg County are puzzling, since, while 

 one male has the wing 117.3 mm., two females measure only 114.4 

 and 114.8 mm. The dimensions of the females are distmctly withm 

 the upper size range of audubonii. It may be noted that a downy 

 woodpecker from this same area was also intermediate between the 

 northern and southern forms, so that here there seems to be a re- 

 stricted region that may be considered as definitely southern m its. 

 affinities entirely cut off except along its drainage to the Ohio from 

 other influences of a southern nature. One male from Lexington 

 also shows small size as the wing measures only 115.6 mm. Females 

 from Golden Pond, Trigg County, measure 116.0 and 116.4 mm., and 

 one from Waverly, Union County, has the wing 116.1 mm. 



Aside from the three small birds mentioned size range in the wing 

 in the series is as follows: Males, 116.6 (much worn) to 122.4 mm.; 

 females 116.0 to 116.7 mm. 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS MEDIANUS (Swainson) : Northern Downy Woodpecker 



An excellent series of this common bird was obtained as follows: 

 Hickman, May 21 and 25; Canton, October 29; Madisonville, October 

 21; South Carrollton, October 18; Roundhill, November 7 and 9; 

 Brownsville, November 10; Rock Haven, April 25; Ghent, October 11; 

 Burlington, October 11 ; Lexington, November 17 and December 1, 1898 

 (collected by E. A. Mearns) ; Mount Vernon, October 1, 3, and 6 ; 

 Monticello, June 9; Rockybranch, June 7; Stearns, June 16; 2,000 to 

 2,800 elevation on Log Mountain, near Middlesboro, September 20, 21, 

 and 23; 4,000 feet elevation on Black Mountain near Lynch, June 23 

 and 29. In these specimens there is some gradation in size, birds from 

 the southwestern section and from the southern counties west of the 

 mountain area being only slightly larger in wing measurement than 

 the southern race. These skins, regardless of sex, range from 91.1 to 

 92.5. Specimens from Brandenburg, Burlington, Ghent, Rock Haven, 

 and Lexington are larger, running from 92.2 to 95.1 mm. in length of 

 wing. In the entire series there are four skins that are slightly below 

 the^ize ordinarily accepted for medlanus. These include a female 

 from near Hickman with a wing 90.5 mm., though another taken at the 

 same time and place measures 91.1 mm. These two agree with others 

 from the Reelfoot Lake area in Tennessee, and while somewhat inter- 

 mediate they are considered to be the northern form. There is also a 

 male from Rockybranch taken on June 7 that measures 89.9 mm., and 

 one shot at 4,000 feet elevation on Black Mountain near Lynch that is 

 only 89.0 mm., but these two have the wing abraded and worn so that 

 the small measurement is false, being due to breakage and loss at the 

 tips of the longer primaries. All the birds listed are identified as 



