BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 239 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS GLACIALIS Grinnell. 



VALDEZ DOWNY WOODPECBOEE.. 



Intermediate in size between D. p. nelsoni and D. p. medianus, but 

 differing from both in absence of white sub-basal spots on greater 

 wing-coverts, reduction of size, or number, of white spots on middle 

 coverts, and more spot-like or rounded form of white markings on inner 

 secondaries; under parts less purely white (more grayish) « 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 152-162 (157); wing, 94-99 (96)- 

 lT}'J^~^^ ^^^'^^' ^^^P^sed culmen, 16-17 (16.3); tarsus, 16.5-17 

 (16.8); outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.5).« 



Adult female.—Length (skins), 155-162 (158); wing, 96-99 (97 2)- 

 tail, 59-63.5 (61.2); exposed cuknen, 16-17 (16.5); tarsus, 16-17 

 (16.5); outer anterior toe, 10.5-11 (10.7). « 



Kenai Peninsula (Homer; Moose Camp), shores and islands of 

 Prince Wilham Sound (Valdez Narrows; Naked Island) and east- 

 ward along coast of Alaska to Taku River; northern British Columbia 

 (J^ort Babine) ?^ 



Picus pubescens (not of Linnaeus) Finsch, Abh. Nat. Brem., iii, 1872 60 (Alexan- 

 drovsk AIaska).-Cou.s, Check List, 1873, no. 299, p^rt;' 2^' ed 1882 ^^ 

 440, part.-BAiRD, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds ii 1874 509 

 part^-RiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 361, part.-HARXLAUB, J^urn' 

 _ fur Orn., 1883, 275 (Chilcat R., Alaska). 

 [Picus] pubescens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 194, part 

 P[icus] pubescens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884 483 part 

 Dryobates pubescens American Ornithologists' Union,' Check List, 1886 no 

 nir.T'f Pf *7^-)N^^soN, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 156, part (Sitka?).' 

 D[ryobates] pubescens Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds 1887 283 part 

 Dryobates pubescens nelsoni (not oiOheThoheT)CHAi'MA,,,' Bull Am' Mus N H 

 XVI, 1902, 239 (Homer, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, Sept.); xx, 1904 ' 402 

 (Moose Camp, Kenai Peninsula, Sept.; crit ) 

 Dryobates pubescens glacialis Grinnell (J.), Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool v no 1^ 

 March 5, 1910, 390 (Valdez Narrows, Prince William Sound, Aksk;, Sept"' 



19 ' m;Jl\h ?"'• C.^l^f-)-S^^^™' Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., ^ii,' 

 1911, 68 (Taku R., Alaska; crit.; habits). 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS TURATI (Malherbe). 



WILLOW WOODPECKER. 



SimUar i^n pattern of coloration to D. p. homorus, but decidedly 

 smaller and with white of under parts much duller 



Adult male.-Length (skins), 145-163 (154); wing, 88.5-97 (92.6); 

 tail 5.3.5-60.5 (55); exposed culmen, 15-17 (16.3); tarsus, 15-17 

 Ub.l); outer anterior toe, 9-11.5 (10.5).'= 



<^ Three specimens. 



«• A breeding bird from Fort Babine, in the interior of northern British Columbia 



S n 16 ru?'lfi . measurements are essentially the eame (wing, 94; exposed 

 mimen, lb, tarsus, 16.5; outer an tenor toe, 10). 

 f Ten specimens. 



