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NATURAL HISTOKY COLLECTIONS IN ALASKA 



PICOIDES AMERICANUS. 



Nam- 

 ber. 



*1313 

 *1318 

 «131l 

 t2033 

 tl891 

 t2081 

 t2145 

 tl892 

 t2082 

 2018 

 *1312 



N.Mns. 

 No. 



Locality. 



Herkimer County, New Torl£ . . 



do ". 



do 



do 



Moose Kivcr, New York 



Moose Lake, New York 



do 



Moose River, New York 



Moose Lake, New York 



do 



do 



Var. dorsalis. 



22031 ' Bitter Root Mountains. 



72925 Colorado . 



72C10 Arizona . 



67146 Colorado. 



18460 New Mexico . 



79771 Colorado. 



Collect- 

 or's No. 



638 

 1162 

 1169 



639 

 1167 

 1158 



Var. alaBcensis. 



Fort Yukon, Alaska . . . 

 fort Reliance, Alaska . 



do 



Fort Yukon, Alaska ... 

 Fort Reliance, Alaska . 

 do 



Date. 



Nov. 5 

 Nov. 8 

 Nov. 2 

 Nov. 6 

 June 4 

 July 24 

 Dec. 20 

 June 4 

 Aug. 16 

 Oct. .9 

 Nov. 5 



Sept. 7 

 Oct. 7 

 July 12 

 June 25 

 Ayr. 4 

 June 3 



Mar. 

 Deo. ■ 

 Nov. ■ 

 Sept. ■ 

 Oct. 

 Oct. 



Ad. cf 

 Ad. d" 

 Ad. £<• 

 Ad. cf 

 Ad.cT 

 Ad. cT 



9 



V 



9 



9 



9 



cT 



<f 

 9 



9 

 9 



o o 





a 

 9 



9 

 9 



4.40 

 4.40 

 4.50 

 4.43 

 4.60 

 4.60 

 4.43 

 4.35 

 4.30 

 4.40 

 4.40 



4.70 

 4.95 



4.72 

 4.80 

 4.82 

 4.72 



4.45 

 4.50 

 4.60 

 4.55 

 4.35 

 4.45 



3.10 

 3.10 

 3.00 

 3.15 

 3.18 

 3.15 

 3.04 

 3.02 

 2.93 

 3,05 

 3.00 



3.00 

 3.00 

 2. 50 ; 

 3.18 



2.70? 

 3.05? 



2.98 

 3.05 

 3.10 

 3.10 

 3.00 

 3.00 



.81 

 .82 

 .83 

 .82 

 .83 

 .82 

 .83 

 .81 

 .83 

 .82 

 .81 



.85 

 .87 

 .86 

 .85 



.92 

 .93 

 .99 

 1.00 

 ! 



.92 

 .90 

 .90 

 .69 



1.00 

 1.04 

 1.09 



9. 



n 



.85 I l.OO 



.84 



.84 

 .83 

 .81 



.81 



.80 1 



.95 

 .95 

 1.05 

 .89 

 .92 

 .90 



.28 

 .28 

 .26 

 .25 

 .23 

 .27 

 .24 

 .27 

 .25 

 .25 

 .26 



.36 

 .38 

 .37 

 .37 

 .39 

 .40 

 .35 

 .34 

 .33 

 .32 

 .38 



.40 

 .39 

 .41 

 .39 

 .38 

 .38 



.39 

 .39 



.38 

 .37 



* From collection of Dr. A. K. Fisher. 



t From collection of Dr. C. H. Merrianj. 



PicoiDES AMERICANUS DORSALIS Baird. Alpiue Three-toed Woodpecker. 



In examining the series of Picoides in the National Museum collection from Southeastern 

 Alaska, I find examples from Fort Kenai which must be referred to this form and others from 

 Kadiak Island which approach it closely. As clorsalU of the Hocky Mountains extends it.« range 

 north to Fort Simpsou, on the headwaters of the Mackenzie River, it is probable that the birds 

 occurring on the southeastern coast of Alaska, in the Kadiak and Sitkan region, iutergrade 

 between typical dorsalis and the new northern race described above. Specimens of typical 

 dorsalis are present from the extreme headwaters of the Yukon River, but no examples refera- 

 ble to this form are among the series of woodpeckers taken at Fort Reliance and thence 

 down the course of that stream to Bering Sea. We possess no information of the habits of this 

 race, and very little upon its distribution in Southern Alaska, and, in fact, no definite knowl- 

 edge is possessed regarding the extension and limits of its northern range. 



Sphyrapicus ruber (Gmel.). Red breasted Sapsucker. 



Known as an Alaskan bird only from the record of Hartlaub of two males taken at Chilcat 

 River April 12. (.Tour. Orn., July, 1883. 275.) 



179. Colaptes auratus (Linn.). Flicker. 



This handsome woodpecker breeds from one side of the Territory to the other wherever 

 wooded country occurs. In the winter of 1880 I secured a skin from a native on the shore of 

 Bering Straits, and was told by an Eskimo there that iu summer it occurred not uncommonly among 

 the spruces a few miles in the interior. From this vicinity it is found to the eastward in all 

 suitable places, and has even been recorded from Greenland. It has betn sent to the National 

 Museum from the Lower Anderson River, and is well known to breed along the entire 

 course of the Yukon, reaching to the mouth of the latter, whence I received several skins. It is 

 a regular summer resident at the head of Norton Bay, and reaches the Arctic on the shore ot 

 Kotzebue Sound, where the natives told me the bird was not rare during the summer. 



