PICID.E — PICIN.E : WOODPECKERS. 



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black streaks on the sides Size of hijloscopus or average cillosiis. Pacific coast region, N. 



Califoniia to S- Alaska, especially well marked in the Columbia River region and in British 



Columbia. Picks harrisii Aud. 1839; P. o. harnsii Coves, Key, orig. ed. 1872, )>. ]!»4 



(including hyloscopas), and of most later writers ; 



Dryohates v. harrisii Ridgw. Man. 1887, p. 28.'? 



(including hyloscopus ; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 



1895, No. 393 c (excluding hijloscopus). 



D. pubes'ceus. (Lat. pubescens, coming to pu- 

 berty ; i. e. hairy. Figs. 400, 401.) Uowny 



Woodpecker. Little Guinea Woodpecker. 



"Checkerboard." Usually 6-7 long; outer 



tail-feathers barred with black and white. Ex- 

 actly like D. rillosus, except in these respects. 



Length 6.00-7.00; extent 11.00-12.00; wing 



3.50-4.00; tail under 3.00; bill about O.G(i; 



whole foot 1.25. Eastern N. Am., common in 



orchards, and all wooded places ; accidental in 



England. Range substantially the same as that 



of the Hairy Woodpecker, but in most U. S. 



localities the more abundant of the two ; on the 



whole rather more southerly; the most typical 



form from the 8. Atlantic and Gulf states, at or 



near minimum dimensions here given. To the 



average bird of the eastern United States the 



A. 0. U. now gives the name D. p. meclianus, 



restricting pubescens proper to the small southern 



form (see S\v. F. B. A. ii, 1831, p. 308; Brewst. 



Auk, Jan. 1897, p. 82; A. 0. U. List, ibid., p. 120, 



No. 394 c). This is the little spotted bird that bores the ajiple-trees so persistently; but it does 



not ap|)ear to hurt them. There is no such difference in the character of the plumage as the 



terms "downy" and "hairy" imply. Both these species are commonly called Sapsuckers, a 



name that siiouKl be restricted to the species of Sphyropicus, and also Guinea Woodpeckers, 



from the profusion of white spots as on the Guinea-hen 

 (Xumidd ntelenyris). The nest of the little Checker- 

 board may be found in a dead limb or trunk of any tree. 

 Eggs 3-6, 0.85 X 0.65 to 0.70 X 0,55, April-June. 

 D. p. nel'soiii. (To E. W. Nelson.) Northern 

 DdwxY Woodpecker. Nelson's Woodpecker. 

 Bearing same relation to D. pubescens medidnus that 

 h-ucomclits does to rillosus, being large ami hoary. 

 Alaska and northern British America. Orkimiolsek, 

 I'l. r. S. Nat. .Mus. xviii, 1895, p. 549; A. ( ». U. 

 ."^uppl. List, Auk, Jan. I8!t7. ]>. 120, No. 394 d. (lu- 

 cluded under pubescens iu all fininer eds. of tlic Ki'V.) 



I>. p. huiiiu'riis. (Gr. o/nopor, homoros, neighboring, bordering on ; ofios. homos, same, com- 



riKin. joint, and opos, horos, boundary, limit.) RocKY Moi'NTAiN Downy Woodpeckkk. 



Batchelder's Woodpecker. Bearing same relation to D. pubescens that hyloscopus does 



to rillosus, having few or no sp<jts on coverts and inner quills; belly white, as in ])ubcsccns. 



Rixky Mt. region of U. 8. and British Columbia and westward, but rarer than pubescens in 



tile East and not found in some places where hyloscopus abounds ; types of the subspecies from 



Fio. 400. — Downy Woodpecker. 



Fio. 401. — Downy Woodpcikfr, nat size 

 (A.l. iiiit. del, E. C.) 



