ORDER PICI. 187 



Dryobates pubescens (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Temperate North America. 



a. Dryobates pubescens pubescens (LINNAEUS). Southern Downy Wood- 



pecker. [394.] 

 Picus pubescens LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 175. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Austroriparian Zone of South Atlantic and Gulf States from 

 North Carolina to eastern Texas. 



b. Dryobates pubescens gairdneri (AUDUBON). Gairdner's Woodpecker. 



[394a.] 



Picus gairdnerii AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 317. (Near Fort Van- 

 couver, Washington.) 



RANGE. Humid Transition Zone of Pacific coast from southern British 

 Columbia south to Mendocino County, California. 



c. Dryobates pubescens homorus CABANIS & HEINE. Batchelder's Wood- 



pecker. [3946.] 



Dryobates homorus CABANIS & HEINE, Mus. Hein., IV, ii, 1863, 65 (note), 

 (California.) 



RANGE. Canadian and Transition zones from southern British Columbia 

 east of Cascade range to eastern California, western Nebraska, and extreme 

 eastern Colorado. 



d. Dryobates pubescens medianus (SWAINSON). Downy Woodpecker. 



[394c.] 



Picus (Dendrocopus) medianus SWATNSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 

 (1832), 308. (New Jersey.) 



RANGE. Canadian and Transition zones of northern and central parts of 

 eastern North America from southeastern Alberta, Manitoba, and southern 

 Ungava south to eastern Nebraska, Kansas, and Potomac Valley, and in 

 mountains to North Carolina. 



e. Dryobates pubescens n&soni OBERHOLSER. Nelson's Downy Wood- 



pecker. [394d] 



Dryobates pubescens nelsoni OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 

 1896, 549. (Nulato, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Canadian Zone from northwestern Alaska and southwestern 

 Mackenzie to central Alberta. 



/. Dryobates pubescens turati (MALHERBE). Willow Woodpecker. [394e.] 

 Picus turati MALHERBE, Monogr. PicidSes, I, 1860, 125, pi. 28, figs. 1-3. 

 (Near Monterey, California.) 



RANGE. Upper Sonoran and Transition zones of California (except on 

 northwest coast and desert ranges). 



