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Dryobates pubgscens (Linnaeus). 



Range. — Temperate North America. 



a. Dryobates pubescens pubescens (Linn^us). Sonthem Downy Wood- 

 pecker. [394.] 



Picus pubescens Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 175. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Austroriparian Zone of South Atlantic and Gulf States from 

 North Carolina to eastern Texas. 



6. Dryobates pubescens gairdneri (Audubon). Gairdner's Woodpecker. 

 [394o.] 



Picus gairdnerii Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 317. (Near Fort Van- 

 couver, Washington.) 



Range. — Humid Transition Zone of Pacific coast from southern British . 

 Columbia south to Mendocino County, California. 



c. Dryobates pubescens homonis Cabanis & Heine. Batchelder's Wood- 



pecker. [3946.] 

 Dryobates homorus Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein., IV, ii, 1863, 65 (note). 

 (California.) 



Range. — Canadian and Transition zones from southern British Columbia 

 east of Cascade range to eastern California, western Nebraska, and extreme 

 eastern Colorado. 



d. Dryobates pubescens medi^nus (Swainson). Downy Woodpecker. 



[394c.] 

 Picus (Dendrocopus) medianus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 

 (1832), 308. (New Jersey.) 



Range. — Canadian and Transition zones of northern and central parts of 

 eastern North America from southeastern Alberta, Manitoba, and southern 

 Ungava south to eastern Nebraska, Kansas, and Potomac Valley, and in 

 mountains to North Carolina. 



e. Dryobates pubescens nelsoni Obbrholsee. Nelson's Downy Wood- 



pecker. [394d.] 

 Dryobates pubescens nelsoni Obekholseb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 

 1896, 549. (Nulato, Alaska.) 



Range. — Canadian Zone from northwestern Alaska and southwestern 

 Mackenzie to central Alberta. ' 



/. Dryobates pubescens turati (Malherbe). Willow Woodpecker. [394e.] 

 Picus turati Malheebe, Monogr. Picidfes, I, 1860, 125, pi. 28, figs. 1-3. 

 (Near Monterey, California.) 



Range. — Upper Sonoran and Transition zones of California (except on 

 northwest coast and desert ranges). 



