210 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS SEPTENTRIONALIS (Nuttall). 



NORTHEEN HAIRY WOODPECKER. 



Similar to D. v. villosus but decidedly larger, the white purer, and 

 white markings averaging rather larger. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), about 245-250; « wing, 128.5-138 

 (132.3); tail, 77.5-87 (83.3); exposed culmen, 34-37.5 (36); tarsus, 

 22-25 (23.6); outer anterior toe, 14.5-16 (15.3).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 227-260 (240); whig, 128-136.5 

 (130.4); tail, 78.5-90.5 (84.3); exposed culmen, 29.5-33.5 (31.3); 

 tarsus, 22-23.5 (22.5); outer anterior toe, 13.5-15.5 (14.3).^= 



Canadian Zone (except Pacific coast section) of North America, 

 from western Yukon (Fort Rehance), southern Alaska (Homer, 

 Kenai Peninsula, September 13), central Mackenzie, and central 

 Keewatin southward (at least in fall, winter, and spring) to Sas- 

 katchewan, eastern Montana (Fort Keogh, April 7), Manitoba, 

 Alberta, Quebec, etc. (Specimens taken during June at Columbia 

 Falls, Montana, and Sebec Lake, Maine, are very nearly if not 

 quite as large as some specimens of D. v. septentrionalis from the far 

 north, and apparently should be referred to that form; but examples 

 taken in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during August, October, 

 and November, are decidedly smaller. See table of measurements 

 on p. 202.) 



[Picas] villosus (not of Linnaeus) Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 388 (Severn 



R.). 

 Picas villosus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hiet. Nat., xxxi, 1818, 71, part (Hudson 

 Bay). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Ticidse, 1868, 45 (Fort Simpson). — Blak- 

 ISTON, Ibis, 1862, 3 (Forks of Saskatchewan R.); 1863, 51 (north to lat. 63°, 

 n. w. Canada; habits).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 298, part; 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 438, part. — Cory, Nat. Hist. Magdalen Is., 1878, 51.— Merriam, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 236 (Godbout, Quebec).— Stearns, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 118 (Eskimo R., Labrador).— Scott, Auk, i, 1884, 

 161 (Ottawa, Ontario, in winter). 

 {?)Picas (Dendrocopus) villosus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 305. 

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

 [Picas] leucomelas (not of Boddaert, 1783) Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 185, no. 



8599, part. 

 D[ryobates] leucomelas Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 67, part. 

 Picas villosus leucomelas Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



188, 219; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 360a. 

 Dryobates villosus leucomelas Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, no. 23, Sept. 

 2, 1885, 355. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 393a; 

 3d ed., 1910, 185.— Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 155 (Manitoba).— Nelson, Rep. 

 Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 156 (Ft. Reliance, etc.).— Chapman, Bull. 



o Only two of the eleven skins are made up in such shape that the total length can 

 be measured with approximate accuracy. 

 & Eleven specimens, 

 c Ten specimens. 



