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Yukon. — Fifty-mile River, Yukon River; Fort Reliance. 

 Minnesota. — Roseau River (Kittson County). 1 

 Montana. — Big Snowy Mountains; Glasgow; Fort Keogh; x Cor- 

 vallis. 1 



Nebraska. — Harrison (Sioux County). 1 

 North Dakota. — Fort Union; Pembina. 1 

 South Dakota. — Fort Randall. 1 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS MONTICOLA Anthony. 



Dryobates villosus montanus Anthony, Auk, vol. 13, 1896, p. 32 (nee Picus mon- 



tanus Bkehm, qui Dryobates major [Linnaeus]). 

 [Dryobates villosus] monlicola Anthony, Auk, vol. 15, 1898, p. 54 (norn. nov. 



pro Dryobates villosus montanus Anthony, praeocc.). 



Chars, subsp. — Similar to Dryobates villosus septentrionalis , but 

 upper wing-coverts with few and small white spots or none. 



Measurements. — Male: 2 Wing, 130-137.5 (average, 133.3) mm.; 

 tail, 78.5-89.5 (82.5); exposed culmen, 28-34 (32.6); tarsus, 22-24.5 

 (22.7); middle toe, 14-16 (14.7). 



Female: 3 Wing, 126.5-134.5 (131.1); tail, 71.5-87.5 (79.8); ex- 

 posed culmen, 28-31 (29.5); tarsus, 21.5-23.5 (22.1); middle toe, 

 13.5-15.5 (14.3). 



Type-locality. — Boulder County, Colorado. 



Geographical distribution. — Canadian and Transition zones in the 

 Rocky Mountains of the United States and southern British Columbia: 

 south to the town of Florida, in southwestern Colorado; and Pecos 

 Baldy, central northern New Mexico; east to Chico Springs, north- 

 eastern New Mexico; Pueblo, Denver, and Loveland, in eastern 

 Colorado; Laramie Peak, southeastern Wyoming; Harrison, north- 

 western Nebraska; Elk Mountain, western South Dakota; and Fort 

 Keogh, eastern Montana; north to the Big Bend of the Mussellshell 

 River, central Montana; Chief Mountain Lake, northwestern Mon- 

 tana; and Lac La Hache, south central British Columbia; west to 

 the Similkameen River, central southern British Columbia; Con- 

 conully and Spokane, northeastern Washington; the Sawtooth 

 Mountains and Bridge, middle Idaho; Parley's Park (Wasatch 

 Mountains) and the Uinta Mountains, in northeastern Utah; and Rio 

 Blanco County and Montrose, western Colorado. 



This race differs from the eastern Dryobates villosus villosus as from 

 Dryobates villosus septentrionalis, and additionally in much greater 

 size. It nearly always has a little white on the wing-coverts, but this 

 is sometimes absent. Birds from Montana have more of such white 

 spotting than those from typical regions, and are more or less inter- 



1 Not breeding at this locality. 



2 Ten specimens, from Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana. 

 8 Eight specimens, from Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. 



