ORDER PICI. 187 
Dryobates pubéscens (LINN US). 
RanacE.— Temperate North America. 
a. Dryobates pubescens pubescens (LiInNmus). Southern Downy Wood- 
pecker. [594.] 
Picus pubescens LinNxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 175. (Carolina.) 
RancGe.— Austroriparian Zone of South Atlantic and Gulf States from 
North Carolina to eastern Texas. 
b. Dryobates pubescens gairdneri (AUDUBON). Gairdner’s Woodpecker. 
(894a.] 
Picus gairdnerii AupuBON, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 317. (Near Fort Van- 
couver, Washington.) 
RanGE.— Humid Transition Zone of Pacifie coast from southern British 
Columbia south to Mendocino County, California. 
c. Dryobates pubescens homorus Capanis & Herne. Batchelder’s Wood- 
pecker. [394b.] 
Dryobates homorus CaBanis & Herne, Mus. Hein., IV, u1, 1863, 65 (note). 
(California.) 
RanceE.— Canadian and Transition zones from southern British Columbia 
east of Cascade range to eastern California, western Nebraska, and extreme 
eastern Colorado. 
d. Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson). Downy Woodpecker. 
[394c.] 
Picus (Dendrocopus) medianus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., I], 1831 
(1832), 308. (New Jersey.) 
RanGe.— Canadian and Transition zones of northern and central parts of 
eastern North America from southeastern Alberta, Manitoba, and southern 
Ungava south to eastern Nebraska, Kansas, and Potomac Valley, and in 
mountains to North Carolina. 
e. Dryobates pubescens nélsoni OsrerHotseR. Nelson’s Downy Wood- 
pecker. [394d] 
Dryobates pubescens nelsoni OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 
1896, 549. (Nulato, Alaska.) 
RanGE.— Canadian Zone from northwestern Alaska and southwestern 
Mackenzie to central Alberta. 
jf. Dryobates pubescens turdti (MaALHERBE). Willow Woodpecker. [394e.] 
Picus turati MALHERBE, Monogr. Picidées, I, 1860, 125, pl. 28, figs. 1-3. 
(Near Monterey, California.) 
Rance.— Upper Sonoran and Transition zones of California (except on 
northwest coast and desert ranges). 
