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xii, 1895, 311 (Granby, Connecticut, winter of 1894-95).— Piers, Trans. 

 Nova Scotia Inst. Sci., ser. 2, i, 1895, 404 (Nova Scotia, rare resident).— 

 (?)CooKE, Bull. Col. Agric. Coll., no. 37, 1897, 84 (Colorado; resident, 

 rare).— Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 39 (Parry Sound and Muskoka, n. w. 

 Ontario).— Howe, Contr. Am. Orn., ii, 1902, 15 (Vermont).- Cox, Auk, 

 xix, 1902, 288 (Minnesota; habits, etc.). 



C[eophl(ms] pileatus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 289, part. 



Dryotomus pileatus Haegitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 515, part (Maine; 

 Herkimer Co., Big Otter Lake, Big Moose Lake, and Watson, New York; 

 West Virginia). 



Ceophlmts pileatus abieticola Bangs, Auk, xv, April, 1898, 176 (Greenville, Maine; 

 coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). — American Ornithologists' Union Commit- 

 tee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 110.— Howell, Auk, xviii, 1901, 340 (Mt. Mansfield, 

 Vermont).— Bridge, Auk, xxi, 1905, 414 (Graylock Mt., Massachusetts). — 

 Taverner and Swales, Wilson Bull., no. 61, 1907, 134 (Point Pelee, Onta- 

 rio; extirpated some 30 years previously!). — Roberts, in Wilcox's Hist. 

 Becker Co., Minn., 1907, 176 (common). 



Phloeotomus pileatus abieticola American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, XXV, July, 1908, 374, part; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 192, part.— Preble, 

 North Am. Fauna, no. 27, 1908, 385 (Athabasca and Slave rivers and along 

 Rocky Mts. at least to Liards River).— Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xxiv, 1911, 33 (geog. range).- Thayer, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 266 (Harvard, 

 Massachusetts, Oct. 15, 1910). 



[Dryotomus] abieticola Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 232, part. 



PHL(EOTOMUS PILEATUS PICINUS Bangs. 



WESTERN PILEATED WOODPECKER. 



Similar to P. p. abieticola, but averaging slightly smaller, and 

 general coloration decidedly darker (less slaty) ; white tips to longer 

 primaries usually less distinct, often obsolete or sometimes altogether 

 wanting; throat usually streaked or suffused with gray, sometimes 

 with a broad, median, uniform stripe of this color; white on basal 

 portion of remiges more restricted. (IVIuch larger than P. p. pileatus 

 or P. p.floridanus, and with the black more sooty than in the latter.) 



Adult maZe.— Length (sldns), 400-450 (426); wing, 230-247 (237); 

 tail, 147-163 (157.2); culmen, 52-58.5 (54.4); tarsus, 32.5-36 (34.4); 

 outer anterior toe, 25-28 (26. 5). « 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 390-434 (407); wing, 226-235 

 (228.1); tail, 146-158 (151.7); culmen, 47-50.5 (48.7); tarsus, 32.5-35 

 (33.9); outer anterior toe, 23.5-27 (25.6).'' 



Forests of the humid northwest coast district from British Colum- 

 bia (Victoria; Comox; Port Moody; near Babine; Departure Bay; 

 Sicamous; Beecher Bay; Sumas; Esquimault; Mount Lehman) and 

 southward through Washington, Oregon, and Cahfomia to Men- 

 docino County on coast and southern Sierra Nevada in the interior 

 (Sequoia National Park; Kings River Canyon; Merced River, etc.); 



» Sixteen specimens. ^ Eight specimens. 



