UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



IN 



ZOOLOGY 



Vol. 7, No. 9, pp. 313-318 October 9, 1911 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HAIRY 

 WOODPECKER FROM SOUTH- 

 EASTERN ALASKA 



H. S. SWARTH 

 (Contribution from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California) 



The recent acquisition by this Museum of a series of Dnjohates 

 villosus harrisi from Vancouver Island (collected by the 

 Museum's expedition to Vancouver Island during the summer 

 of 1910), served to draw my attention to the quite different 

 appearance of the hairy woodpeckers from southeastern Alaska, 

 which I had previously referred to that race (1911, p. 66). My 

 interest was further aroused by Mr. Oberholser's "Revision of 

 the Hairy Woodpeckers" (1911, p. 616) in which he refers birds 

 from Prince of Wales Island to the Queen Charlotte Islands 

 form, D. V. picoideus, and comments upon the uniformity in size 

 and color exhibited by the race harrisi throughout its range. I 

 had examined one specimen of picoideus and could not see that 

 any of my Alaskan birds approached it very closely. The indi- 

 viduals composing the series did show some variation, however, 

 principally in the coloration of the lower surface of the body, 

 but those which might be considered as exhibiting an inclination 

 toward picoideus evinced it partly in the darker coloration below 



