BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 

 DRYOBATES VILLOSUS HYLOSCOPUS (Cabanis). 



CABANIS' WOODPECKER. 



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Similar to I), v. leucothoredis , but decidedly smaller, and under 

 parts dull grayish or brownish white or pale drab-grayish or buffy 

 grayish. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 194-221 (214); wing, 118.5-129 

 (122.6); tail, 68-78.5 (73.1); exposed culmen, 28.5-33 (30.9); tarsus, 

 21-22.5 (21.6); outer anterior toe, 13-14.5 (13.9).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 190-210 (202); wing, 114.5-126 

 (120.1); tail, 67-81.5 (75.1); exposed culmen, 26-29 (27.2); tarsus, 

 19.5-21 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 12.5-14.5 (13.5).^' 



Coast district of Cahfornia and northern Lower California, north to 

 Mendocino County (Cahto; Mount Sanhedrin), south to San Pedro 

 Martir Mountains, Hansen's Ranch, sixty miles north of Campo, 

 etc. ; in the interior of southern California north to Mariposa County 

 (Bear Valley) and Mono County (Wliite Mountains). 



PiciLS villosus (not of Linnaeus) Vigors, Zool. Voy. "Blossom," 1839, 23 (Monte- 

 rey, California). 



Picus {Tnchojpicus) harrisii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1859, p. xxvi, 

 part. 



Pkus harrisii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 127 (San Jose Valley, Cali- 

 fornia). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 87, part (Petaluma, 

 Santa Clara, Tulare Valley, Ft. Tejon, and Santa Isabel, California); Rep. 

 U. S. and Mex. Bound., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 5 (Santa Isabel); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 75, part. — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 1, 

 1859, 57, part (Tejon Pass, California). — Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1859, 190 (Ft. Tejon).— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 375, part (Santa Barbara 

 and Tejon Pass). 



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



Besides the gradual increase in size toward the northward, indicated by the above 

 measurements, there is a variation in color of under parts in the opposite direction, 

 specimens from north of San Francisco Bay (in Marin, Sonoma, and Mendocino coun- 

 ties, California) being often pale drab-grayish or buffy grayish below, thus showing a 

 tendency toward D. v. harrisi, as should be expected from the fact that the range of 

 the latter begins in the next county northward. 



