608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40. 



Geographical distribution. — Canadian and Hudsonian zones of 

 Newfoundland. 



As is the case with so many Newfoundland or Labrador races of 

 birds, this hairy woodpecker is really much more like some of the 

 western forms than it is like either Dryobates villosus villosus, or Dryo- 

 bates villosus septentrionalis, the subspecies which lie geographically 

 nearest. It is closest to Dryobates villosus leucothorectis * from New 

 Mexico and Arizona, but differs in slightly larger size, particularly of 

 the tail and middle toe; in having white spots on the wing-coverts, 

 and often black spots or bars on the white dorsal stripe. It may 

 readily be distinguished from Dryobates villosus villosus by its larger 

 size, much less conspicuously white spotted lesser and middle wing- 

 coverts, and the often black spotted or barred white dorsal stripe; 

 and from Dryobates v. septentrionalis by the same color characters, 

 as well as by shorter wing and bill. 



The mixture of black in the white dorsal stripe, a character shared 

 by only Dryobates villosus picoideus, although not constant, appears 

 in many specimens. In some examples of D. v. terraenovae, black 

 spots on the tail-feathers may be noticed. 



We have seen 1 1 examples of this form, from the following localities : 



Newfoundland. — Codroy; Locke's Cove; Humber River; Canada 

 Bay. " 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS LEUCOTHORECTIS, new subspecies. 



Chars, subsp. — Much like Dryobates villosus monticola, but decidedly 

 smaller; wing coverts practically always without white spots. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 196291, U.S.N.M., Biological 

 Survey collection; Burley, New Mexico, September 19, 1905; N. 

 Hollister. Upper parts generally, sides of head and neck, a broad 

 malar stripe, wings, and middle tail-feathers, black; occipital band 

 scarlet; nasal tufts grayish white; a broad superciliary stripe, a 

 broad rictal stripe produced to the side of the nape, a broad dorsal 

 stripe, spots on both webs of all the remiges except the tertials, 

 small spots on a few of the upper wing-coverts, all of the two 

 outer rectrices (including the dwarfed outermost one), most of the 

 third, and terminal portion of the fourth, and entire under surface 

 of body, pure white. 



Measurements. — Male: 2 Wing, 123.5-131 (average, 126.8) mm.; 

 tail, 75.5-86.5 (79.4) ; exposed culmen, 28.5-33 (30.8) ; tarsus, 20-22.5 

 (21.5); middle toe, 12.5-15.5 (13.8). 



Female: 3 Wing, 120.5-128 (123.6); tail, 73-83 (77.8); exposed 

 culmen, 24-27.5 (25.9); tarsus, 20-22 (20.8); middle toe, 13-14.5 

 (13.5). 



i See p. 608. 



2 Sixteen specimens, from Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. 



3 Ten specimens, from Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas. 



