April 2, 1910 Vou. IV, pp. 79-80 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW RACE OF THE PILEATED WOODPECKER. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
As long ago as 1898, when I separated the pileated woodpecker 
of the Northeastern States from the typical form, I knew that still 
another race, inhabiting the Northwest Coast region, must be 
recognized. Eyer since then I have intended to publish a name 
for this bird, and I am surprised that in the mean time no one else 
has done so. It may be known as 
Phleotomus pileatus picinus subsp. nov. 
Type, from Sumas, British Columbia, adult 2, no. 4516, Bangs Collec- 
tion, Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. Collected by Atlan C. Brooks, 
April 1, 1897. 
Characters.— As large as, or even larger than, P. pileatus abieticola 
(Bangs), but color sooty black as in P. pileatus pileatus (Linn.), the throat 
usually much marked with sooty, and the sides and flanks but slightly 
marked with grayish. The type affords the following measurements: 
wing, 238; tail, 158; tarsus 31; culmen, 53 mm. These figures agree 
closely with the averages of a large number of specimens measured (several 
in the Bangs Collection and a long series in the collection of William 
Brewster). 
