JUNE 24, 1908 Vou, IV, PP. 37-38 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
THE NEWFOUNDLAND HAIRY WOODPECKER. 
BY CHARLES FOSTER BATCHELDER. 
THE HAIRY WOODPECKER of Newfoundland differs so much from 
the forms of this species inhabiting the neighboring portions of 
North America that it must be recognized as a distinct subspecies. 
It may be named and characterized as follows. 
Dryobates villosus terrenove subsp. nov. 
Type, from Placentia, Newfoundland, ~ adult, no. 5227, coll. of C. F. 
Batchelder, collected May 30, 1890, by J. C. Cahoon. 
Characters.— Similar to typical Dryobates villosus, but slightly larger, 
the black areas of the upper parts increased, the white areas reduced both 
in number and in size, especially in the remiges and wing coverts. 
Description.— Above black; nasal feathers whitish, some of them black 
or tipped with black, the white often obscured by brownish staining; 
two white stripes on each side of head; a scarlet nuchal band; a white 
stripe down the middle of the back. Wings black, spotted with white; 
the spots small, relatively few on the coverts, and largely lacking on distal 
portion of inner web of primaries; the spots tend to be shortened in the 
direction of the longitudinal axis of the feather, and thus to produce an 
approach toward transverse barring. Middle two pairs of tail-feathers 
black; third pair white only distally on the margin of the outer web and 
on small portions of the inner web, the extreme tip usually black; fourth 
and fifth pairs white, with a varying but considerable part of the proximal 
