220 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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



Mua.jXvii, 1890, 234, part (Vancouver I. and Orcaa I. Brit. Columbia) 

 [Dendrocopus] harrisi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 214. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS SITKENSIS Swarth. 



SITKA HAIRY WOODPECKER. 



Similar to D. v. Tiarrisi but under parts averaging decidedly paler 

 and more buffy (less "smoky"), sometimes nearly white; dorsal 

 area usually white, instead of smoky grayish; nasal tufts usually 

 strongly buffy or tawny; wing-coverts usually spotted, more or less, 

 with white. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skms), 225-240 (228); wing, 124-130 

 (126.6); taU, 73-82 (77.4); culmen, 29-33.5 (31); tarsus, 20.2-23.5 

 (22.1); middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 215-240 (222); wing, 122-128 

 (124.2); tail, 74-82 (79.3); culmen, 27-30 (27.8); tarsus, 20-22.5 

 (21.8); middle toe, 14-15.5 (14.7).^ 



Coast district of southeastern Alaska (Sitka; Howkan; Loring; 

 Chilcoot; Prince of Wales, Coronation, Dall, Etolin, Boca de Quadra, 

 Wrangell, Admiralty, Chichagoff, Baranoff, and Kuiu islands). 



Picus villosus (not of Linnaeus) Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. 

 Sci., i, 1869, 274 (Sitka, Alaska) .—Finsch, Abh. Nat. Brem., iii, 1872, 60, 

 (Sitka).— Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, 258 (Sitka). 

 Picus villosus harrisii (not Picus harrisi Audubon) Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 



1883, 275 (Chilcoot, Alaska). 

 Dryohates villosus harrisii Grinnell, Auk, xv, 1898, 127 (Sitka); Univ. Cal. Pub. 



Zool., XV, 1909, 216 (Admiralty Islands, Alaska; crit.). 

 Dryohates villosus harrisi Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xl, no. 1840, 1911, 

 615, part (Loring, Howkan, and near Killisnoo, Admiralty Island, Alaska). — 

 Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vii, 1911, 66 (Prince of Wales, Coro- 

 nation, Dall, Etolin, Boca de Quadra, Wrangell, Admiralty, Chicha- 

 goff, and Kuiu Islands, and Sitka Alaska; crit.) 

 Dryohates villosus picoideus (not Dryohates picoideus Osgood) Oberholser, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xl, no. 1840, 616, part (Kasaan Bay, Prince of Wales Island, 

 Alaska). 

 Dryohates villosus sitkensis Swarth, Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool., vii, no. 9, Oct. 9, 1911, 

 315 (Etolin Island, Alaska; coll. Univ. Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.). 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS PICOIDEUS (Osgood). 



QUEEN CHARLOTTE WOODPECKER. 



Similar to D. v. Tiarrisi, but white (or pale drab) of back more 

 restricted and broken, more or less, by bars, spots, and streaks of 

 black; lateral rectrices sometimes spotted or broadly barred with 



» Ten specimens. & Seven specimens. 



