BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



221 



black, the sides sometimes streaked and flanks barred or transversely 

 spotted with black. 



Adult female.''— Length (skins), 205-220 (215); wing, 121-127 

 (124); tail, 76-81 (79.2); exposed culmen, 25.5-27.5 (26.4); tarsus, 

 22-24 (22.6); outer anterior toe, 14.5-15.5 (14.8).^ 

 Queen Charlotte Islands^ British Columbia. 

 Dryobates picoideus Osgood, North Am. Fauna, no. 21, Sept., 1901, 44 (Cum- 

 shewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte I., Brit. Columbia; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — 

 Jenkins, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 169 (crit.). — Kermode, Prov. Mus. Brit. Col., 

 1909, 49. 

 Dryobates villosus picoideus American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xix, 1902, 319; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, ise.— Oberholser, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xl, 1911, 597, 616, part (monogr.). 

 Dryobates villosus harrisi (not Picus harrisi Audubon) Swarth, Univ. Calif. 

 Pub. Zool., vii, 1911, 66, part (Queen Charlotte Islands; crit.). 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS ICASTUS Oberholser. 



CHIHITAHTJA WOODPECKEIl. 



Similar to D. v. Jiyloscopus, but smaller and with under parts 

 always dull white or (usually) very pale drab-grayish. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 185-213 (204); wing, 117-128 

 (123.5); tail, 67.5-76 (71.6); exposed culmen, 25.5-30.5 (28.1); 

 tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.8); outer anterior toe, 12.5-15 (13.6)." 



Adult females.— hength. (skins), 187-209 (198); wing, 119-128.5 

 (123.3); tail, 70-82.5 (74.6); exposed culmen, 23-28 (25.5); tarsus, 

 18-22 (20.2); outer anterior toe, 12.5-14 (13.4).'^ 



« Adult males not seen. 

 & Five specimens. 



c Seventeen specimens. 

 ^ Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from southern Arizona (Huachuca Mountains) . 



One adult male from northern Sonera 



Six adult males from Chihuahua 



Three adult males from Durango 



Three adult males from Zacatecas 



Two adult males from Coahuila 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from southwestern New Mexico (Bear 



Spring Mountains) 



Six adult females from Chihuahua 



Two adult females from Durango 



One adult female from northwestern Jalisco (Bolafios) 



One r.dnlt female from Coahnila 



14.5 



12.5 



14.2 



13.5 



13 



13.2 



14 



12.6 



12.8 



14 



13.5 



