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Bangs, iVew Birds from Eastern North America. 



r Auk 

 LApril 



Fish Hawk. Mr. C. H. Townsend ^ has lately described the Sea 

 Eagle of Alaska as a new subspecies. He made his comparisons 

 wholly with true leucocephalus^ entirely ignoring washingtojii. His 

 bird is but slightly larger than ivashingtoni., though it may differ in 

 some other characters enough to entitle it to stand as a sub- 

 species. 



Ceophloeus pileatus abieticola, subsp. nov. Northern Pi- 

 LEATED Woodpecker. 



Type from Greenville, Mame, ? adult, No. 3008. Coll. of E. A. and 

 O. Bangs, collected Nov. 7, 1895, by C. H. Goldthv^^aite. 



Siibspecific characters. Much larger than Ceophlcens pileatus pileatus ; 

 bill longer, of about the same breadth ; tarsus longer ; all the white 

 markings more extensive; black color less sooty, more brownish or 

 grayish black, feathers of sides more extensively tipped and barred with 

 white. 



Comparative Measurements. " 



C. pileatus. 



C. abieticola. 



Locality. 



Fort Myers, Florida. 



Greenville, Maine. 

 Lake Umbagog, Maine. 



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15 



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 14.8 



Remarks. — Linnaeus based his Ficiis pileatus on Catesby and 

 Kalm. Taking Catesby as the best authority, southern South 

 Carolina must be considered the type locality of the species, and 

 birds from this region are as extreme of the southern race as 

 those from Florida. C. pileatus abieticola is still to be found in 



iProc. Biol. Soc. of Washington, Vol. XI, pp. 145-146, June 9, 1897. 



^ Coll. of Wm. Brewster. 



3 Coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. 



