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tral Alabama; Burnsville, northeastern Mississippi ; central Arkansas; 

 and up the Mississippi and Ohio valleys to Cushion Lake, in south- 

 eastern Missouri, Sugar Creek Prairie (Richland County) and Mount 

 Carmel, in southeastern Illinois, and Wheatland in southwestern 

 Indiana; west to Jefferson and Austin in eastern Texas. 



Birds from Florida are very small and have least white on the 

 wing-coverts, representing thus the extreme development of this 

 form, and for this reason we have used them as the basis of compari- 

 sons. 



Specimens from southern Georgia, Louisiana, and eastern Texas 

 are quite as small as those from Florida, but in South Carolina and 

 North Carolina they become somewhat larger. A single adult male 

 from Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, southeastern Virginia, is 

 considerably larger, and verges toward Dryobates villosus villosus, 

 but has a smaller amount of white on the wing-coverts, and seems 

 to be nearer the present race. Breeding birds from the bottomlands 

 of the lower Wabash Valley, in Richland and Wabash counties, 

 southeastern Illinois, and in Knox County, southwestern Indiana, 

 while somewhat larger than typical D. v. audubonii, are, nevertheless, 

 nearer to this than to D. v. villosus; winch latter form, however, 

 occupies the neighboring uplands, and descends to the river bottoms 

 in winter. 



I have examined 112 examples of this race, representing the 

 following localities: 



Arkansas .—Mississippi County; Armorel. 



Florida. — Enterprise; Whitfield; Mullet Lake; Kissimmee River 

 at Fort Gardner; Arbuckle; Osceola County; Moses Creek; Pilot 

 Town; Jacksonville; Whiter Park; Hibernia; Lake Hatch-ne-haw ; 

 Kissimmee; Lake Kissimmee; San Mateo; Fort Thompson ; Tarpon 

 Springs; Magnolia; Welaka; Rosewood; Smyrna; Sebastian River; 

 Hollyhill. 



Georgia. — LeConte Plantation, Riceboro; Washington County; St. 

 Marys; Liberty County. 



Illinois. — Sugar Creek Prairie (Richland County); Mount Carmel; 

 Mound City; Olive Branch. 



Indiana. — Wheatland. 



Louisiana. — Houma; Natchitoches; Belair; Mandeville. 



Mississippi. — Burnsville ; Washington. 



Missouri. — Cushion Lake. 



North Carolina. — Raleigh. 



South Carolina. — Lanes; Kershaw County ; Mount Pleasant; Aiken 

 County; Port Royal; Caesar's Head. 



Texas. — Giddings; Hempstead; Sour Lake; Jefferson. 



Virginia. — Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp. 



