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Ninety-two specimens of this form have been seen, by which the 

 following localities are represented : 



California. — San Bernardino Mountains; San Jacinto Mountains; 

 Pine Flats, on North Fork of San Gabriel River (Los Angeles County) ; 

 Volcan; Santa Barbara ; Santa Ysabel; southern Sierra Nevada ; Pine 

 Valley (San Diego County) ; Strain's camp, San Gabriel Mountains ; 

 Sierra Madre Mountains (Los Angeles County) ; Piute Mountains 

 (Kern County) ; Monterey ; Pacific Grove ; Santa Cruz ; Nicasio ; Cahto ; 

 Tejon Mountains; Fort Tejon; Tejon Valley; Paicines (San Benito 

 County) ; Bear Valley (San Benito County) ; Snow Mountain (Colusa 

 County) ; Mount Sanhedrin; Berry essa; Mount Whitney; Sargent; 

 Preston Peak; White Mountains; Isabella, South Fork of Kern River; 

 Kern River, 25 miles above Kernville; Walker Pass, western slope; 

 Cuyamaca Mountain. 



Lower California. — PifLon, western slope of San Pedro Martir 

 Mountains ; La Grulla, San Pedro Martir Mountains ; Hanson Laguna, 

 Hanson Laguna Mountains; 60 miles south of Campo; Santa Ulalia. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS ICASTUS, new subspecies. 



Chars, subsp. — Similar to Dryobates villosus hyloscopus, but bill much 

 smaller, and wing slightly longer. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 163914, U.S.N.M., Biological 

 Survey Collection; El Salto, Durango, Mexico, July 21, 1898; E. W. 

 Nelson and E. A. Goldman. Upper parts generally, sides of head and 

 neck, a broad malar stripe, wings, and middle tail-feathers, black; 

 occipital band scarlet; nasal tufts, superciliary stripe, a broad rictal 

 stripe produced to the side of the cervix, throat, breast, and upper 

 abdomen, brownish white; a broad dorsal stripe, spots on both webs 

 of primaries, and on inner webs of secondaries, with all of the two 

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

 the third, and terminal portion of the fourth, lower abdomen, and 

 crissum, creamy white. 



Measurements. — Male: 1 Wing, 117-128 (average, 123.5) mm.; tail, 

 67.5-76 (71.6); exposed culmen, 25.5-30.5 (28.1); tarsus, 20-22.5 

 (20.8); middle toe, 12.5-15 (13.6). 



Female: 2 Wing, 119-128.5 (123.6); tail, 70-82.5 (74.9); exposed 

 culmen, 23-28 (25.3); tarsus, 18-21 (20); middle toe, 11.5-14 (12.9). 



Type-locality. — El Salto, Durango, Mexico. 



Geographical distribution. — Transition and Canadian zones in the 

 mountains of northwestern Mexico and contiguous portions of the 

 southwestern United States: north to Pinal County, southeastern 

 Arizona; and Animas Peak (Animas Range), southwestern New 

 Mexico; west to El Puerto, eastern Sonora; Sierra Madre near Gua- 

 dalupe y Calvo, southwestern Chihuahua; El Salto, southwestern 



i Seventeen specimens, from Arizona, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, and Zacatecas. 

 2 Ten specimens, from Chihuahua, Coahuila, Jalisco, and Durango. 



