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considerable numbers in the ])rimeval forests of northeastern 

 North America, from Massachusetts north, but is of course 

 extirpated over much of its former liabitat. I think it still, how- 

 ever, meets the range of C. pileatus pilealus., and specimens from 

 the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia are very good inter- 

 mediates, though nearer abieticola than X.y^xz'^X pileatus. 



Colaptes auratus luteus, subsp. nov. Northern Flicker. 



Type from Watertown, Mass., $ adult, No. S30, Coll. of E. A. and O- 

 Bangs. Collected May 2, 1S79, by E. A. and O. Bangs. 



Subspecific characters. Size larger than C. auratus atiratus; bill pro- 

 portionally shorter, straighter, less curved. Colors much paler through- 

 out; the brown of back and gray of top of head several shades lighter; 

 black bands on back narrower and less conspicuous ; under parts more 

 washed with yellow — much less black and white; shafts, etc., a much 

 brighter yellow. 



Comparative Measurements. 



Remarks. — Linnaeus based his Cuculus auratus wholly upon 

 Catesby. The bird from southern South Carolina I have not 

 seen, but birds from Mcintosh Co., Georgia, differ but little from 

 Florida specimens. Specimens from northern North Carolina 

 and Virginia are referable to subspecies luteus., which extends 

 from thence northward to Canada. 



The differences between the two eastern races of the Flicker 

 were very clearly pointed out by Dr. Merriam as long ago as 



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

 -Coll. of Wm. Brewster. 



