BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Austral Zone, where specimens are practically identical except in 

 slightly greater size. 



[Picus] pubescens Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 175 (based on T]ie Smallest 

 Spotted Woodpecker Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 21). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 

 i, pt. i, 1788, 435. — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 232. — Gray, Hand-list, ii, 

 1870, 184, no. 8590, part.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 194, part. 



Picus pubescens Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 65, pi. 121; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xxvi, 1818, 82.— Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1807, 153, part, pi. 9, fig. 4.— 

 Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., ix, 1815, 170, part. — Bonaparte, Obs. Wilson's 

 Am. Orn., 1826, [240], part; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826 (Synop. Birds 

 U. S.) 46, part; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 39, part. — Lesson, Traite 

 d'Orn., 1831, 228.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 1832, 

 576; 2ded., 1840, 687; Water Birds, 1834, 600.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 

 1834, 81, pi. 112; v, 1839, 539; Synopsis, 1839, 180; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 

 1842, 249, pi. 263. — Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuiii and 

 Col. R., 1853, 89, part (Indian Territory; Texas). — Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 89, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 76, 

 part.— Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 119; iii, 1861, pi. 29, figs. 8, 9.— 



Footnote— Continued. 



Locality. 



FEMALES— continued. 



Two adult females from Long Island, New York {D. p. me- 

 dianus) 



Five adult females from Pennsylvania (D. p. medianus) 



One adult female from northeastern Illinois, June (D. p. 

 medianus) 



One adult female from eastern Kansas, July (D. p. pubescens?) 



Eight adult females from southeastern Illinois and southwest- 

 em Indiana (D. p. puhescensf) 



Three adult females from coast of Virginia, May, June (£>. p. 

 pubescens?) 



One adult female from western North Carolina, July (D. p. 

 medianus) 



Two adult females from eastern Tennessee, March, April (Z>. p. 

 medianus?) 



One adult female from Indian Territory, August (Z). p. 

 pubescens?) 



Four adult females from Texas, January, March, April, Aug- 

 ust {D. p. pubescens) 



Two adult females from Louisiana (Z>. p. pubescens) 



Three adult females from northern South Carolina, January, 

 February (D. p. pubescens?) 



Two adult females from southeastern South Carolina (D. p. 

 pubescens) 



Three adult females from southeastern Georgia (!>. p. pu- 

 bescens) 



Ten adult females from Florida (Z>. p. pubescens) v 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



10.5 

 10.1 



10.5 

 10 



10.2 



10.3 



10.5 



10.5 



11 



10.1 

 9.7 



10.2 



10.5 



10.2 

 10 



Concerning certain of the above measurements, it may be stated that the female 

 from northeastern Illinois has the wing exceptionally short for a northern bird, but 

 this may be to some extent due to wearing; and that the series from southeastern 

 IlUnois and southwestern Indiana (both males and females) includes more winter 

 than spring or summer birds, most of them being from Wabash County, Illinois, and 

 Knox County, Indiana. 



