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DRYOBATES PDBESCENS MEDIANUS (Swainson). 



DOWNY WOODPECKER. 



Similar to Z>. f. pubescens, but larger, and the whitish of under 

 )arts, etc., slightly paler (more nearly white). 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 145-161 (153); wing, 91-96.5 (94.1); 

 ail, 51-60.5 (55.8); exposed culmen, 15-17.5 (16.4); tarsus, 15-16.5 

 16); outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.5)." 



Mult female. — Length (skins), 145-161 (153); wing, 91.5-97 

 ;94.7); tail, 50.5-61.5 (56.4); exposed cuhnen, 14.5-17.5 (15.4); 

 ,arsus, 15-16.5 (15.4); outer anterior toe, 9.5-11 (10.4).* 



Upper Austral Zone and part of Transition Zone of eastern North 

 America, from southeastern Virginia (Dismal Swamp), highlands of 

 'Jorth and South Carolina, northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee, 

 louthern Illinois and Indiana, eastern Kansas, etc., northward to 

 ibout northern border of United States and maritime provinces of 

 Canada to Newfoundland; grading into D. p. nelsoni northward, into 

 9. p. pubescens southward; westward to eastern portion of Great 

 Plains, occasionally to base of Rocky Mountains (Denver, Colorado, 

 yL&j); Kodiak Island, Alaska (resident)." 



Pirns pubescens (not of Linnseus) Wilson, Am. Om., i, 1807, 153, part, pi. 9, 

 fig. 4. — ViBiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 65, part, pi. 121; Nouv. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 82, part. — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., ix, 1815, 

 170, part. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 46, part; Synopsis 

 Birds U. S., 1828, 46, part; Obe. Wilson's Am. Om., 1826, [240], part;.Geog. 

 and Comp. List, 1838, 39, part.— Lbsson, Traits d'Om., 1831, 228, part,— 

 NuTTALL, Man. Om. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 576, part. — ^Atjdubon, Om. 

 Biog., ii, 1834, 81, part, pi. 112; v, 1839, 539, part; Synopsis, 1839, 180, part; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 249, part, pi. 263. — ^Woodhouse, in Rep. Sit- 

 greaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 89, part (Indian Territory; Texas). — 

 Baird, Rep. Paeific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 89, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 76, part.— Malhbbbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 119, part; iii, 1861, pl.29, figs. 

 8, 9.— ScLATEK, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 334, part (eastem North Ameriea). — 

 SuNDBVALL, Consp. Av. Pioin., 1866, 17, part.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., iii, 1872, 129 (Topeka and Leavenworth, e. Kansas, May; crit.). — 

 CouBS, Check List, 1873, no. 299, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 440, part.— BAII^D, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 509, part. — Mbabns, 



"Thirteen specimens, from Massachusetts (6), New York (2), Pennsylvania (3), Wis- 

 lonsin (1), and Iowa (1). 



6 Eighteen specimens, from Massachusetts (9), New York (4), and Pennsvlvania (5). 

 [n the series from Massachusetts are several specimens which closely approach D. p. 

 lelsoni in dimensions. 



<^ I am not able to detect the minutest difference, in any respect, between Kadiak 

 ixamples of this species and specimens of true D. p. mediarms from the northeastern 

 United States, and therefore, notwithstanding the puzzle of geographic distribution 

 nvolved in the case, I do not know what else to do with these Kadiak birds than to 

 efer them (provisionally, at least) to D. p. medianus. 



An adult male from Satuma Island, British Columbia, taken Feb. 3, 1894, in the 

 3ang8 collection (no. 4508), is exactly like Kadiak specimens, and may be a migrant 

 rom there. 



