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sides of head and neck, a broad malar stripe, wings, and middle 

 tail-feathers, black; occipital band scarlet; nasal tufts, a broad 

 superciliary stripe, a broad rictal stripe produced to the side of the 

 cervix, all of the two outer rectrices (including the dwarfed outer- 

 most one), most of the third, and terminal portion of the fourth, 

 with entire lower parts of body, brownish white; a broad dorsal 

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

 and small spots on a few of the upper wing-coverts, creamy white. 



Measurements. — Male: 1 Wing, 125.5-132.5 (average, 129.1) mm.; 

 tail, 69.5-83.5 (77); exposed culmen, 30-34.5 (31.9); tarsus, 21-24 

 (22.9); middle toe, 14-15.5 (15). 



Female: 2 Wing, 125-128.5 (126.3); tail, 78.5-83 (80.1); exposed 

 culmen, 27-27.5 (27.1); tarsus, 21-22 (21.5); middle toe, 14-15 

 ri4.4). 



Type-locality. — Quincy, California. 



Geographical distribution. — Canadian and Transition zones in the 

 mountains of the Great Basin, western United States: north to 

 south central Washington; east to Camp Harney, eastern Oregon; 

 and the Ruby Mountains, eastern Nevada; south to Arc Dome 

 (Toyabe Mountains), central Nevada; and Placerville, central 

 California; west to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in Butte 

 and Tehama counties, and to Canyon Creek (Trinity County), 

 middle northern California; and Fort Klamath, Diamond Lake, and 

 Mount Hood, central Oregon. In winter it wanders casually west- 

 ward as far as Puyallup, western Washington. 



This new race may be readily distinguished from Dryobates villosus 

 monticola by shorter wing and tail, brownish-tinged lower parts, and 

 the even less white-marked, nearly always unspotted, wing-coverts; 

 from Dryobates v. Jiarrisi, of the northwestern coast region, by the 

 very much more whitish, less smoky brownish color of the under 

 surface and all the other light portions of the plumage. Some indi- 

 viduals of this form have pure white lower parts, and thus in color 

 resemble Dryobates villosus leucothorectis, but their greater size will 

 usually serve to distinguish them. 



Of this race, 99 examples, from the subjoined localities, have been 

 seen: 



California. — Canyon Creek (Trinity County); Baird; Weber Lake; 

 Weaverville; Mount Lassen; Carberry's Ranch (east central Shasta 

 County); Mount Shasta; Lyonsville; Carbondale; Payne P. O. 

 (Tehama County); Warmcastle Soda Springs, Squaw Creek Valley 

 (near Mount Shasta); Enterprise (Butte County); Blue Canyon, 

 SierraNevada; Echo (Eldorado County); Quincy; Placerville; Fyffe; 

 Mount Tallac; Glen Alpine; Fort Crook; Lumpkin Mills (Butte 



i Thirteen specimens, from California, Oregon, and Nevada. 

 2 Four specimens, from the same States. 



