3 2 Anthony, A New Subspecies of Dryobates. \'Hn 



black of the crown. Two show whitish lores, a character belong- 

 ing to hyloscopus and harrisi. Only one of my skins from central 

 California shows blackish lores. I would not, however, attempt 

 to separate the southern bird upon this rather unstable character. 

 The series from the Rocky Mountain region is quite easily 

 separated from California specimens and constitutes a well-defined 

 geographical race for which I can find no name available, and 

 propose to separate from hyloscopus, to which race it has heretofore 

 been assigned, to be known as 



Dryobates villosus montanus, subsp. nov. Rocky Mountain 



Woodpecker. 



Subsp. Char. — Differing from hyloscopus by larger size, much more 

 purely white lower parts, and in having the lores chiefly or entirely black 

 as in villosus. 



Description of type. No. 3625, coll. A. W. A. Boulder County, Colorado, 

 December 27, 1892. — Above black, dorsal stripe pure white, outer webs of 

 primaries spotted with white as in harrisi and hyloscopus ; occiput with 

 red patch common to the group ; lores chiefly black, with white superciliary 

 stripe, separated from the basal tufts by the glossy black of the pileum ; 

 nasals white lined with black ; below pure white. Wing, 135; tail, 105; 

 tarsus, 18; bill from nostril, 30; depth of bill, 8 mm. 



Habitat, Rocky Mountains from New Mexico to Montana, West to Utah 

 (Uintah Mountains). 



From reference to the measurements it will be seen that the 

 present race is fully the equal in size of leucomelas, and consider- 

 ably larger than either harrisi or hyloscopus. It is distinguished 

 from leucomelas at a glance by its usually unspotted wing-coverts 

 and tertials. That it intergrades with leucomelas is shown by a 

 specimen from Salmon River, Idaho, and one from Summit, Mon- 

 tana, both of which have the wing-coverts and tertials somewhat 

 spotted and are intermediate between montanus and leucomelas. 

 A specimen from Wind River Mts., Wyoming, Aug. 29, and one 

 from Big Snowy Mts., Montana, Aug. 25, in the series from the 

 Department of Agriculture, are directly referable to leucomelas and 

 would indicate the race to be a resident in those localities. Only 

 one of the skins from Colorado has the wing-coverts noticeably 

 spotted and the measurements of this specimen place it with the 

 eastern villosus. 



