BIRDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 211 



Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 138, part (Ft. Liard, Mackenzie; Ft. Reliance, 

 Yukon Terr.; crit.); xvi, 1902, 239 (Homer, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 

 Sept.). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 548 (Winnipeg, etc., 

 Manitoba, breeding).— Clakke (W. E.), Auk, vii, 1890, 322 (Ft. Churchill).— 

 Nutting, Bull. Lab. N. H. State Univ. Iowa, u, 1893, 270 (Grand Rapids, 

 lower Saskatchewan). — Bendieb, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 50. — 

 Bishop, North Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 77 (Fifty-mile R., near Miles Canyon, 

 Yukon Valley). — Coubeaux, Ottawa Nat., 1900, 28 (s. Saskatchewan, resi- 

 dent). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 39 (Parry Sound and Muskoka, n. 

 Ontario, resident). — Cueeieb, Auk, xxi, 1904, 35 (Leech Lake, n. Minne- 

 sota, breediag).— Wood, Auk, xxii, 1905, 177 (Isle Royal, n. Michigan, 

 Aug., Sept.).— Jenkins, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 166 (crit.). — Adams, EcoI. Surv. 

 N. Mich., 1906, 123 (Isle Royal, Aug., Sept.). — Andeeson, Proc. Davenport 

 Ac. Sci., xi, 1907, 274 (Sioux City, Iowa, Nov., Dec). — Peeble, North Am. 

 Fauna, no. 27, 1908, 379 (Great Slave Lake, Ft. Simpson, etc., to lower 

 Athabasca R.). — Stansill, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 395 (centr. Alberta). — Geinnell 

 (J.), Condor, xi, 1909, 205 (Forty-mile, Yukon Terr., Nov.).— Osgood, North 

 Am. Fauna, no. 30, 1909, 89 (Plateau Mt., Yukon Terr.). 



D[ryobates] vilh»us leucomelas Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 282. 



Dlryobates] v[ilhsiis] leucomelas Wood and Gaiqe, Pub. 4, Mich. Geol. and Biol. 

 Surv., 1911, in text (breeding on Isle Royale). 



[Pieus mllosus.] Var. canadensis (not Plots canadensis Gmelin) Baied, Beewee, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 503, part. 



Picus septentrionalis NvrtA-LTj, Man. Cm. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 2d ed., 

 1840, 684 ("northern parts of the continent as far as the 63d parallel, as well 

 as in the Oregon Territory."). 



Dryobates villosus septentrionalis Obeeholsee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xl, no. 

 1840, June 3, 1911, 597, 604 (monogr.). 



[Picas (Trichopicus) villosus] var. major (not PiciLS major Linnaeus) Bated, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxvii (nomen nudum). 



[Picas villosiis] Variety major Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 85, 

 part. 



[Picas villosus.] Var. major Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 16, part. 



[Picits villosus ... a. villosus . . .] a', majores Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 279, part. 



[Picas villosus] a. major Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 483. 



Picas villosus major Goode, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 336 (index). 



Trichopicus villosus major Goods, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 346 (index). 



[Dendrocopus villosris.] Large Northern form Haegitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xviii, 1890, 231. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS TERRffiNOViE Batchelder. 



KEWFOTTHDLAND WOOSFECKEB,. 



Similar to D. v. viUosus and D. v. septentrionalis (intermediate in size) 

 but with much less white on back and wings, the white dorsal stripe 

 usually more or less broken by black spotting (sometimes reduced to 

 spots), the wing-coverts with fewer and smaller white spots, and white 

 Spots on remiges reduced in size; sides and flanks sometimes streaked 

 with dusky, and lateral rectrices sometimes with one or more black 

 spots or bars on inner web. 



AduU miaZe.— Length (skins), 222-238 (231); wing, 126-133.5 

 (128.4); tail, 80.5-90 (83.4); cubnen, 29.5-32 (30.7); tarsus, 21.5- 

 23.5 (22.4); outer anterior toe, 15-16 (15.4)." 



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