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d. Larger (averaging: wing 117.3 in male, 113.2 in female; exposed culmen 

 27.2 in male, 24.1 in female); under parts averaging less heavily spotted 

 and white spots on outer webs of primaries larger. (Southern Arizona and 

 southwestern New Mexico southward through Sonora and Chihuahua to 



Durango.) Dryobates arizonse arizonse (p. 2G1). 



dd. Smaller (averaging: wing 108.9 in male, 108 in female; exposed culmen 

 23.6 in male, 20.8 in female); under parts averaging more heavUy spotted 

 and white spots on outer webs of primaries smaller, sometimes obsolete. 

 (Southwestern Mexico, in States of Sinaloa, Jalisco, Colima, and Zaca- 

 tecas and Territory of Tepic.) Dryobates arizonse fraterculus (p. 263). 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS VILLOSUS (Linnffius). 



HAIRY WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum uniform glossy blue-black; a nuchal band of 

 bright poppy red or scarlet, usually interrupted in middle portion 

 by an extension of the black of pileum; rest of upper parts black, 

 the median portion of back (broadly) white, the wings (including 

 middle coverts) spotted with white, the spots on greater coverts and 

 remiges arranged in regular transverse series; two lateral rectrices, on 

 each side (including outermost rudimentary rectrix), entirely white, 

 tlie third white except basal portion of inner web, the fourth with 

 greater part of outer web and distal portion of inner web white ;'^ nasal 

 tufts dull white to dull brownish yellow, the bristly shafts blackish; 

 a broad white supra-auricular stripe, narrower anteriorly, where 

 extending over ej; e (sometimes confluent with whitish of nasal tufts) ; 

 a broad white suborbital-subauricular stripe, anteriorly confluent 

 with whitish or dull yellowish of nasal tufts, posteriorly extending 

 to sides of neck; between these two white stripes a broad black stripe 

 involving whole of auricular region and part of suborbital region, 

 posteriorly confluent with black of hindneck; a black malar stripe 

 (usually more or less broken anteriorly by admixture of wliite), con- 

 tinued and gradually widening, posteriorly, where confluent with a lat- 

 eral extension of the black of hindneck, and also sending off a short 

 branch along side of chest; underparts immaculate white; bill deep 

 grayish horn color, the mandible slightly paler; iris reddish brown 

 (claret brown to burnt umber); legs and feet dull grayish blue, bluish 

 gray or grayish olive; length (skins), 184-228 (220); wing, 114.5-124 

 (120.4); tail, 65-77 (71.4); exposed culmen, 27-33 (29.2); tarsus, 

 21-23 (21.9); outer anterior toe, 13-15.5 (14.4).^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but without any red on 

 head; length (skms), 185-231 (206); wing, 115-128 (119.9); tail, 



« The terminal portion of these white rectrices usually stained, more or less deeply, 

 with brown or tawny (from contact with decayed wood?). 



^ Twenty-five specimens, from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of 

 Columbia, northern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. 



