BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 211 



Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 138, part (Ft. Liard, Mackenzie; Ft. Reliance, 

 Yukon Terr.; crit.); xvi, 1902, 239 (Homer, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 

 Sept.). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 548 (Winnipeg, etc., 

 Manitoba, breeding).— Clarke (W. E.), Auk, vii, 1890, 322 (Ft. Churchill).— 

 Nutting, Bull. Lab. N. H. State Univ. Iowa, ii, 1893, 270 (Grand Rapids, 

 lower Saskatchewan). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 50. — 

 Bishop, North Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 77 (Fifty-mile R., near Miles Canyon, 

 Yukon Valley). — Coubeaux, Ottawa Nat., 1900, 28 (s. Saskatchewan, resi- 

 dent). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 39 (Parry Sound and Muskoka, n. 

 Ontario, resident). — Currier, Auk, xxi, 1904, 35 (Leech Lake, n. Minne- 

 sota, breeding).— Wood, Auk, xxii, 1905, 177 (Isle Royal, n. Michigan, 

 Aug., Sept.). — Jenkins, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 166 (crit.). — Adams, Ecol. Surv. 

 N. Mich., 1906, 123 (Isle Royal, Aug., Sept.). — Anderson, Proc. Davenport 

 Ac. Sci., xi, 1907, 274 (Sioux City, Iowa, Nov., Dec). — Preble, North Am. 

 Fauna, no. 27, 1908, 379 (Great Slave Lake, Ft. Simpson, etc., to lower 

 Athabasca R.). — Stansill, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 395 (centr. Alberta). — Grinnell 

 (J.), Condor, xi, 1909, 205 (Forty-mile, Yukon Terr., Nov.).— Osgood, North 

 Am. Fauna, no. 30, 1909, 89 (Plateau Mt., Yukon Terr.). 



D[ryohates] villosus leucomelas Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 282. 



D[ryobates] v[illosus] leucomelas Wood and Gaige, Pub. 4, Mich. Geol. and BioL 

 Surv., 1911, in text (breeding on Isle Royale). 



[Picus villosus.] Var. canadensis (not Ficus canadensis Gmelin) Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 503, part. 



Picus scptcntrionalis NvttaijL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 2d ed., 

 1840, 684 ("northern parts of the continent as far as the 63d parallel, as well 

 as in the Oregon Territory."). 



Dryobatcs villosus sepientrionalis Oberholser, Proc. U. vS. Nat. Mus., xl, no. 

 1840, June 3, 1911, 597, 604 (monogr.). 



[Picus ( Trichopicus) villosus] var. 7najor (not Picus major Linna3us) Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxvii (nomen nudum). 



[Pictis villosus] Variety major Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Siu-v., ix, 1858, 85, 

 part. 



[Picus villosus.] Var. major Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 16, part. 



[Picus villosus ... a. villosus . . .] 2f . majores Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 279, part. 



[Picus villosus] a. major Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 483. 



Picus villosus major Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 336 (index), 



Trichopicus villosus major Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 346 (index). 



[Dendrocopus villosus.] Large Northern form Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xviii, 1890, 231. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS TERR.aiNOV^ Batchelder. 



NEWFOUITDLAND WOODPECKER. 



Similar to D. v. villosus and D. v. sepientrionalis (intermediate in size) 

 but with much less white on back and wuif^s, the white dorsal stripe 

 usually more or less broken by black spotting (sometimes reduced to 

 spots), the wing-coverts with fewer and smaller white spots, and white 

 spots on remiges reduced in size; sides and flanks sometimes streaked 

 with dusky, and lateral rectrices sometimes with one or more black 

 spots or bars on inner web. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skuis), 222-238 (231); wing, 126-133.5 

 (128.4); tail, 80.5-90 (83.4); cuhnen, 29.5-32 (30.7); tarsus, 21.5- 

 23.5 (22.4); outer anterior toe, 15-16 (15.4).« 



o- Six specimens. 



