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other, though in neither so strongly and extremely as in the 
Chichagof bird. They, too, show an extreme minimum of white 
markines dorsally. The three specimens together meet the char- 
acters one would assign to a new woodpecker from the region, 
reasoning solely from analogy with previously known forms. 
I do not believe the smoky color is due to staining, as is at once 
suggested by constitutional doubters of new subspecies. It per- 
vades evenly the whole contour portions of the feathers involved, 
not the distal tips alone-——as would be the case were the staining 
hypothesis to hold. 
After studying over the version of the synonomy of Picoides 
americanus according to Bangs (Auk, April, 1900, pp. 127-129), 
I must express myself as agreeing fully with him. The name 
americanus should date from Swainson and not from Brehm. 
This name therefore applies to the form of interior Alaska and 
Northwest Territory, previously called successively fasciatus and 
alascensis. The New Eneland bird should stand as P. a. bacatus 
Bangs. 
Littlejohn, the collector of the type of Picoides americanus 
fumipectus comments on its capture as follows: ‘‘On the way 
up a mountain back of Hooniah, Chichagof Island, June 25, at 
an elevation of 2300 feet, we had stopped to rest and eat lunch, 
when the bird was heard, and soon detected clinging to the side 
of an old stump. I soon brought my gun to bear and succeeded 
in securing this, the only one of its kind I saw during the 
season.’’ Dixon records that Hasselborg shot another with his 
rifle in the same general locality the last of July. Unfortunately 
the remains were not preserved. 
Sphyrapicus ruber ruber (Gmelin). 
Northern Red-breasted Sapsucker. 
This woodpecker was found commonly at the following points, 
all on Admiralty Island: Windfall Harbor, April 17 to May 19; 
Mole Harbor, May 19 to June 10; Hasselbore Lake, May 19 to 
June 11, where it frequented the alders along the lake shore; and 
Hasselborg River June 12. At Coppermine Cove, Glacier Bay, 
July 19, one was shot by Hasselbore with his ‘‘bear gun,’’ but 
the fragments were not preserved. 
