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[Dendrocopus vilhsm.'] Subsp. p. Dmdrocopus harrisi Hakgitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus.jXVii, 1890, 234, part (Vancouver I. and Orcaa I. Brit. Columbia) 

 [Dendrocopits] harrisi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 214. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS SITKENSIS Swarth. 



SITEA HAIB.7 WOODFECKEB. 



Similar to D. v. harrisi but imder parts averaging decidedly paler 

 and more buffy (less "smoky"), sometimes nearly white; dorsal 

 area usually white, instead of smoky grayish; nasal tufts usually 

 strongly buffy or tawny; wing-coverts usually spotted, more or less, 

 with white. 



Adult Tfuile.— Length, (skins), 225-240 (228); wing, 124-130 

 (126.6); tail, 73-82 (77.4); culmen, 29-33.5 (31); tarsus, 20.2-23.5 

 (22.1); middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).» 



Adult /emaZe.— Length (skins), 215-240 (222); wing, 122-128 

 (124.2); tan, 74-82 (79.3); cuhnen, 27-30 (27.8); tarsus, 20-22.5 

 (21.8); middle toe, 14-15.5 (14.7).» 



Coast district of southeastern Alaska (Sitka; Howkan; Loring; 

 Chilcoot; Prince of Wales, Coronation, Dall, Etolin, Boca de Quadra, ^ 

 Wrangell, Admiralty, ChichagoflE, Baranoff, and Kuiu islands). 



Picas viUosas (not of Linnseus) Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. 

 Sci., i, 1869, 274 (Sitka, Alaska).— Finsch, Abb. Nat. Brem., iii, 1872, 60, 

 (Sitka).— ScHALOW, Journ. fur Om., 1891, 258 (Sitka). 

 Picus villosus harrisii (not Picas harrisi Audubon) Hahtlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 



1883, 275 (Chilcoot, Alaska). 

 Bryohates villosus harrisii Geinnell, Auk, xv, 1898, 127 (Sitka); Univ. Cal. Pub. 



Zool., XV, 1909, 216 (Admiralty Islands, Alaska; crit.). 

 Dryobates villosus harrisi Oberholseb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xl, no. 1840, 1911, 

 615, part (Loring, Howkan, and near Killisnoo, Admiralty Island, Alaska). — 

 Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vii, 1911, 66 (Prince of Wales, Coro- 

 nation, Dall, Etolin, Boca de Quadra, Wrangell, Admiralty, Chicha- 

 goft, and Kuiu Islands, and Sitka Alaska; crit.) 

 Dryobates villosus picoideus (not Dryobates picoideus Osgood) Obbrholseh, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xl, no. 1840, 616, part (Kasaan Bay, Prince of Wales Island, 

 Alaska). 

 Dryobates villosus sitkensis Swarth, Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool., vii, no. 9, Oct. 9, 1911, 

 315 (Etolin Island, Alaska; coll. Univ. Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.). 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS PICOIDEUS (Osgood). 



QTTEEN CHARLOTTE WOODPECKEB. 



Similar to D. v. harrisi, but white (or pale drab) of back more 

 restricted and broken, more or less, by bars, spots, and streaks of 

 black; lateral rectrices sometimes spotted or broadly barred with 



o Ten specimens. 6 Seven specimens. 



