BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female.— Length (skins), 191-201 (196); wing, 116-120.5 

 (118.2); tail, 74; exposed culmen, 25-25.5 (25.2); tarsus, 20.5; 

 outer anterior toe, 13-13.5 (13.2).^ 



JVliddle eastern portion of Mexican plateau, in States of San Luis 

 Potosi (Villar; Sierra de San Luis Potosi; mountains near Jesus 

 Maria) and southwestern Tamaulipas (Miquihuana; Moctezuma; 

 Galindo; Montelunga; Ciudad Victoria). 



[Dendrocopus villosus.] Subsp. /?. Dendrocopu^ harrisi Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xviii, 1890, 234, part (Sierra de San Lufs Potosi). 



Dendrocopus Jiarrisi Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 431, 

 part (Sierra de San Luis Potosi). 



Dryohates villosus interinedius Nelson, Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 259 (Villar, San 

 Luis Potosi; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Jenkins, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 169 (crit.).— 

 Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 76 (Galindo and Montelunga, Tamaulipas). — 

 Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xl, 1911, 597, 613 (monogr.). 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS JARDINn (Malherbe). 



JARDINE'S WOODPECKER. 



Similar to I), v. intermedius, but color of under parts decidedly 

 darker, varying from buffy drab-gray to broccoli brown or drab. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 172-219 (197); wing, 111-124 (117.7); 

 tail, 64.5-77 (71.5); exposed culmen, 24-28.5 (26.2); tarsus, 19.5- 

 21.5 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 13-14.5 (13.9).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 175-201 (187); wing, 110-121.5 

 (114.6); tail, 62-75.5 (69.5); exposed culmen, 20-25 (22.5); tarsus, 

 18.5-20.5 (19.5); outer anterior toe, 12-14.5 (13.4).*= 



The darkest birds in the series examined are from Guerrero, Morelos, Mexico, and 

 Vera Cruz, the palest mostly from Jalisco and Michoacdn, but also from Guerrero and 

 Vera Cruz. 



