212 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 220-235 (225); wing, 122-128 

 (124.8); tail, 80.5-86 (82.8); culmen, 25.5-27 (26.3); tarsus, 21.5- 

 23.5 (22.2); outer anterior toe, 14-15 (14.6).« 



Dryohates villosus leucomelas (not Picus leucomelas Boddaert) Porter, Auk, xviii, 

 1900, 72 (Newfoundland).— (?) Townsend and Allen, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., 

 xxxiii, 1907, 376 (s. Labrador, resident). 



Dryohates villosus terrsenovse Batchelder, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iv, June 

 24, 1908, 37 (Placentia, Newfoundland; coll. C. F. Batchelder).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xx\d, 1909, 296 (Check List no 

 393^?); Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 186.— Arnold, Auk, xxix, 1912, 76. 



Dryohates villosus terracnovae Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., xl, 1911, 597, 

 607 (monogr.). 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS MONTICOLA Anthony. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOODPECKER. 



Similar, in large size and whiteness of under parts, to D. v. septen- 

 trionalis, but with white spots on wiug-coverts much reduced in size 

 or number, or altogether wanting. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 215-236 (226); wing, 130-137.5 

 (133.3); tail, 78.5-89.5 (82.5); exposed cuhnen, 28-34 (32.6); tarsus, 

 22-24.5 (22.7); outer anterior toe, 14-16 (14.7).* 



Adult female. —Length (skms), 208-231 (218); wing, 126.5-134.5 

 (131.1); tail, 71.5-87.5 (79.8); exposed culmen, 28-31 (29.5); tarsus, 

 21.5-23.5 (22.1); outer anterior toe, 13.5-15.5 (14.3).<^ 



Canadian and Transition zones of Rocky Mountain district, from 

 central and eastern British Columbia (Vernon; Ashcroft; Ashmola 

 River; LakelaHache; Crater Mountain; Similkameen River; lower 

 Fraser Valley; Okanogan; Querelle; Sicamous; Caribou district; 

 Chilliwack) and southward to eastern Utah and northern New 

 Mexico; eastward to eastern Montana (Fort Keogh and Lame Deer, 

 breeding), western South Dakota (Elk Mountains, breeding), western 

 Nebraska (Squaw Canon, Sioux County, June; Harrison, Sioux 

 County, February); westward to eastern Washington (Spokane 

 River; Fort Spokane and ConconuUy, September), and eastern Utah 

 (Wahsatch and Uintah Mountains, breeding). 



Picv^ harrisii (not of Audubon) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 87, part 



(Spokane R., e. Washington). 

 Picus harrisii Merriam, An. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872 (1873), 693 



(Teton Canyon, Idaho, June). 

 Picus harrisi Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 206 (e. Colorado).— Ridg- 



WAY, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 545, part (Parley's Park, Utah); Field and 



Forest, ii, 1877, 209 (Colorado). 

 [Plots villosus.] Var. harrisii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 294, part. 

 Picus villosus . . . var. harrisi Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 298a, part. — Baird, 



Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 507, part. — Henshaw, 



Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 386 (Grass Valley, Utah; Ft. Garland and 



Pagosa, Colorado). 



a Five specimens. b Ten specimens. c Eight specimens. 



