36 Hayward and Savage on Green Mountain Coleoptera. 



advanced age; whether resulting from an interchange of 

 blood or not this is surely the case. I have long been 

 aware that the fall nestling Golden-winged Woodpeckers 

 frequently, although not always, show black maxillary 

 patches. The nesthng of the Downy Woodpecker {Picus 

 pubescens) has the top of the head spotted with red and 

 we must still look to the west for the ancestral stock of 

 this species, Picus scalar is et nuttaUi. Other examples 

 might be shown but the matter still rests too much upon 

 hypothesis to go on at present. I have only mentioned 

 the matter as it has been suggested to me by my studies, 

 in order that others may look into it. We certainly are 

 too hasty in judging what the original stock of a species 

 may have been; for example how do w^e know that all 

 ^^Juncos" are sub-species of hyemaUs, or at best are de- 

 scribed from this species as a permanent stock, as has been 

 too often indicated by name ? Priority of naming may have 

 something to do with the matter in this case, yet it is always 

 a varying process. The same is partly true of Colaptes 

 auratus and ColapUs mexicanus. Let us look more closely 

 then into this guided by all the light which it is possible 

 to bring upon the subject. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTEBA OF THE 

 GREEN MOUNTAINS. 



By B. Hayward and H. Srmage. 



{Continued from page 2g.) 



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