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KATUEAL HISTOEY COLLECTIONS IN ALASKA 



PICOIDES AMERICAKUS. 



"ber. 



*1313 

 *liJ!8 

 •1311 

 t2033 

 tl891 

 t2081 

 12145 

 tl892 

 t2082 

 2016 

 *1312 



IT. Mn3. 

 No. 



22031 

 72925 

 72610 

 67146 

 18460 

 79771 



Collect- 

 or's No. 



638 

 1162 

 1169 



639 

 1167 

 1158 



Locality. 



HerMmer Coanty, New Tork . 



.do. 

 -do- 



Moose Eivcr, New Tork. 

 Moose Lake, New York . 



do 



Moose Eiver, New York. 

 Moose Lake, New York . 



do 



do 



Tar. dorsalis. 



Bitter Eoot Monntains. 



Colorado 



Arizona 



Colorado 



New Mexico 



Colorado 



Tar. alaecensis. 



Fort Yukon, Alaska . . . 

 Fort Eeliance, Alaska . 



do 



Fort Yukon, Alaska . - . 

 Fort Eeliance, Alaska . 

 do 



Bate. 



Sex. 



Nov. 5 

 Not. 8 

 Nov. 2 

 Not. 6 

 June 4 

 July 24 

 Deo. 20 

 June 4 

 Aug. 16 

 Oct. 9 

 Not. 5 



Sept. 7 

 Oct. 7 

 July 12 

 June 25 

 Apr. 4 

 June 3 



Mar. ■ 

 Dec. ■ 

 Not. ■ 

 Sept. ■ 

 Oct. ■ 

 Oct. . 



Ad. cf 

 Ad. d' 

 Ad. rf 

 Ad. rf 

 Ad. cf 

 Ad. rf 



9 



9 



9 



9 



9 



.26 

 .28 

 .26 

 .25 

 .25 

 .27 

 .24 

 .27 

 .25 

 .25 

 .26 



.29 

 .26 

 .27 

 .28 

 .27 

 .28 



.26 

 .27 

 .28 

 .27 

 .26 

 .27 



.37 

 .39 



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



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



PiCoiDBS AMERiCANTJS DORSALis Baird. Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker. 



In examinlDg 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 dorsalis of the Eocky Mountains extends its range 

 north to Fort Simpson, on the headwaters of the Mackenzie Eiver, it is probable that the birds 

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

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

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

 ble to this form are among the series of woodpeckers taken at Fort Eeliance 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 (G-mel.). Eedbreasted Sapsucker. 



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

 Eiver April 12. (Jour. Orn., July, 1883. 275.) 



179. CoLAPTES AURATtrs (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 in summer it occurred not uncommonly among 

 the spruces a few tnilos in the interior. From this vicinity it is found to the e astward in all 

 suitable places, and has even been recorded from Greenland. It ha.<5 been sent to the National 

 Museum from the Lower Anderson Eiver, 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 sammer resident at the head of Norton Bay, and reaches the Arctic on the shore of 

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



