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xii, 1895, 311 (Granby, Connecticut, winter of 1894-95).— Piehs, Trans. 

 Nova Scotia Inst. Sci., ser. 2, i, 1895, 404 (Nova Scotia, rare resident).— 

 (7)CooKE, Bull. Col. Agric. Coll., no. 37, 1897, 84 (Colorado; resident, 

 rare). — Flemino, Auk, xviii, 1901, 39 (Parry Sound and Muskoka, n. w. 

 Ontario).— Howe, Contr. Am. Om., ii, 1902, 15 (Vermont).— Cox, Auk, 

 xix, 1902, 288 (Minnesota; habits, etc.). 



C[eopM(ms] pileatus Bidgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 289, part. 



Dryotomus pileatus HARGrrx, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 515, part (Maine; 

 Herkimer Co., Big Otter Lake, Big Moose Lake, and Watson, New York; 

 West Virginia). 



Ceophlcms pileatus dbietieola Bangs, Auk, xv, April, 1898, 176 (Greenville, Maine; 

 coU. E. A. and O. Bangs). — American Oknithologists' Union Commit- 

 tee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 110.— Howell, Auk, xviii, 1901, 340 (Mt. Mansfield, 

 Vermont). — Bridge, Auk, xxi, 1905, 414 (Graylock Mt., Massachusetts). — 

 Taveener and Swales, Wilson BuU., no. 61, 1907, 134 (Point Pelee, Onta- 

 rio; extirpated some 30 years previously!). — Roberts, in Wilcox's Eist. 

 Becker Co., Minn., 1907, 176 (common). 



PhlcEoUymus pileatus dbietieola American Ornithologists' Union Committeb, 

 Auk, XXV, July, 1908, 374, part; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 192, part.— Pebble, 

 North Am. Fauna, no. 27, 1908, 385 (Athabasca and Slave rivers and along 

 Rocky Mts. at least to Liards River). — Ridqwat, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xxiv, 1911, 33 (geog. range). — Thater, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 266 (Harvard, 

 Massachusetts, Oct. 15, 1910). 



{Dryotomus'l abieticola Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 232, part. 



PHLOEOTOMUS PILEATUS PICINUS Bangs. 



WESTESir FILEATED WOODFECKEK. 



Similar to P. p. abieticola, but averaging slightly smaller, and 

 general coloration decidedly darker (less slaty) ; white tips to longer . 

 primaries usually less distinct, often obsolete or sometimes altogether 

 wanting; throat usually streaked or suffused with gray, sometimes 

 with a broad, median, uniform stripe of this color; white on basal 

 portion of remiges more restricted. (Much larger than P. p. pileatus 

 or P. p.floridanus, and with the black more sooty than in the latter.) 



Adult male.— J^eagih. (skins), 400-450 (426); wing, 230-247 (237); 

 tail, 147-163 (157.2); cuhnen, 52-58.5 (54.4); tarsus, 32.5-36 (34.4); 

 outer anterior toe, 25-28 (26.5)." 



Adult female. — ^Length (skins), 390-434 (407); wing, 226-235 

 (228.1); tail, 146-158 (151.7); culmen, 47-50.5 (48.7) ; tarsus, 32.5-35 

 (33.9); outer anterior toe, 23.5-27 (25.6).* 



Forests of the humid northwest coast district from British Colum- 

 bia (Victoria; Comox; Port Moody; near Babine; Departure Bay; 

 Sicamous; Beecher Bay; Sumas; Esquimault; Mount Lehman) and 

 southward through Washington, Oregon, and CaUfomia to Men- 

 docino County on coast and southern Sierra Nevada in the interior 

 (Sequoia National Park; Kings River Canyon; Merced River, etc.); 



o Sixteen specimens. 6 Eight specimens. 



