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Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but red of head paler 

 and duller, that of forehead, fore part of crown, and malar region 

 much less uniform, the red being restricted to the tips of the feathers. 



Footnotfr— Continued. 



Locality. 



MALES — continued. 



Three adult males (P. p. aUeticola) from Kewatin (1) and 



Maclcenzie (2) 



Eight adult males (P. p. picinus) from British Columbia 



Five adult males (P. p. picinus) from Oregon 



Two adult males (P. p. picinus) from California 



One adult male (.P.p. picinus) from Idaho 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females (P. p. floridanus) from central and southern 

 Florida 



One adult female from Georgia 



Two adult females from Alabama 



Two adult females from Louisiana 



Two adult females from Tennessee 



Two adult females from Indian Territory (1) and Oklahoma (1) 



Three adult females from Texas 



Two adult females from southern Illinois 



Two adult females from North Carolina 



Six adult females from Virginia (4), District of Columbia (1), 

 and Maryland (1) 



One adult female (type of P. p. abieticola) from Maine 



One adult female (P. p. abieticola) from Wisconsin 



One adult female (P. p. abieticola) from Minnesota 



Three adult females (P. p. picinus) from British Columbia 



One adult female (P. p. picinus) from Washington 



One adult female (P. p. picinus) from Oregon 



Three adult females (P. p. picinus) from California 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



27.3 

 26.6 

 2&4 

 26.8 

 26 



25.3 

 24 

 25.7 

 26 

 24 

 24.7 

 26.8 

 27 

 (24) 



25.2 



25 



25.5 



27 



25.8 



26 



26 



25 



I have found it very difficult to decide as to the propriety of separating a form of 

 this species from central and southern Florida, but after having several times laid 

 out and carefully compared the entire series of specimens from more southern locali- 

 ties, have come to the conclusion that to do so will, apparently, best express the 

 facts of the case. Going by size alone, there is little difference between specimens 

 from southern and central Florida and those from localities as far northward as Mary- 

 land (lowlands), southern Illinois, and Missouri; in fact some of these more northern 

 specimens are quite as small as Florida ones. But the series from central and south- 

 ern Florida are uniformly decidedly blacker than the rest, the few examples (two 

 from Alabama and one or two from Texas) of the latter that approach the Florida 

 specimens proving, on close comparison, to be of an appreciably more slaty or sooty 

 hue. Indeed, all the specimens examined from northern Florida (Gainesville, 

 Mayport, and Pilot Town) are distinctly lighter in color than those from more southern 

 localities in that State. Some of the more northern examples are quite as slaty aa 

 the extreme northern form (P. p. abieticola) but they are distinctly smaller. In 

 other words, I have restricted the name pileatus to an intermediate form, character- 

 ized by the small size of P. p. floridanus combined with an appreciably lighter 

 (more slaty or sooty) coloration, often approaching closely the lightness of hue of 

 P. p. abieticola. 



