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in having large white spotting on the wing-coverts. The pecu- 
liarities of the Sitkan hairy woodpeckers have been commented 
upon before,? and I prophesy that the race will be ultimately 
named. I hesitate to do so now because of entire lack of Alaskan 
examples of leucomelas, and scantiness of harrisit material from 
farther south along the Pacifie Coast. 
Upon this species Dixon comments: ‘‘ At the three lakes back 
of Mole Harbor I saw more of these birds than at all other places 
put together. Their slow drumming sounded so similar to the 
clicking of a telegraph instrument that we dubbed them ‘tele- 
eraph woodpeckers’ to distinguish them from the sapsuckers.”’ 
At Windfall Harbor, a laying female (No. 463) was taken May 
6; at Hasselborg Lake an adult male (No. 462) May 30; and at 
Hawk Inlet a juvenile male (No. 464) August 5. 
Picoides americanus fumipectus, new subspecies. 
Smoky-breasted Three-toed Woodpecker. 
Type.—Male adult; No. 452, U. C. M. V. Z.; Hooniah, Chi- 
chagof Island, Alaska: June 25, 1907; collected by C. Littlejohn. 
CHARACTERS.—Similar to Picoides americanus americanus 
(Swainson) but white of head, and lower surface suffused with 
a distinct pinkish smoky tinge; black preponderating dorsally, 
that is, white markings reduced far below their average extent 
in americanus. 
RemarxKs.—If it were not for the facet that the smoky suffu- 
sion shown by this, the only specimen secured, is precisely the 
tint of that on the lower parts in Dryobates villosus harrisii of 
the same humid faunal area, I would not dare to name it as new 
on the basis of such scanty material. But the analogy is so 
significant that I have not the slightest doubt that more speei- 
mens from the same general region will exhibit the same char- 
acter. Moreover, two specimens remarked upon by Bangs (Auk, 
April, 1900, p. 135) are through his kindness before me. These 
are from Saturnia Island, B. C., which is also in the Northwest 
Humid Coast Belt. As stated by Bangs (1. e.) they are ‘‘ pinkish 
smoke gray’’ beneath, one somewhat more strongly than the 
2See Jenkins, Auk XXIII, April, 1906, p. 168. 
