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Adult male. — Length (skins), 145-167 (156); ■wing, 94.5-103.5 

 (99.3); tail, 58-68 (62.3); exposed culmen, 16-18 (17.1); tarsus, 

 15.5-17 (16.5); outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.5).» 



Adult /emaZe.— Length (skins), 149-161 (158); wing, 95-105.5 

 (100.9) ; tail, 61-66.5 (63.9) ; exposed culmen, 15.5-18 (16.7) ; tarsus, 

 15.5-17 (16.2); outer anterior toe, 9.5-11 (10.3).'^ 



Transition and Canadian zones of western North America, from 

 southern British Columbia east of Cascade Mountains (Lake La 

 Hache; Vernon; Buonaparte; Caribou District; Ducks; ChiUiwack; 

 Okanogan) and southward over Rocky Mountains and contiguous 

 ranges to mountains of New Mexico and Arizona (breeding) ; west to 

 middle Washington (Yakima, breeding; Okanogan County) and (at 

 least in fall and winter) mountains of eastern California (Quincy, 

 Plumas Coimty, April; Piute Mountains; Kernville; Fort Tej6n) ; east 

 to eastern Montana (Fort Keogh, breeding) and western Nebraska. 



{'i)Picus leaeurus Hartlaub, Naumannia, ii, heft 2, 1852, 55 (Eocky Mts.; ex 

 Paul von Wurttemberg, manuscript). 



(1)P[ieus] leucuTus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 18. 



(^)[Trichopicus] huewrus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 123 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 8). 



{'i)D\ry6bates\ leucurus Cabanis and Heine, Mub. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 65. 



Dryohates pubescens leuatrus Fishek (W. K.), Condor, iv. May, 1902, 69. — 

 Geinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 37 (California range). 



Picus gairdneri (not of Audubon) Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 91, part (Laramie R. and Ft. Laramie, Wyoming). — Cooper, Om. Cal., 

 1870, 377, part (Rocky Mts).— Aiken, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 206 

 (e. Colorado, winter).— Rmow at, Field and Forest, ii, 1877, 209 (Colorado); 

 Om. 40th Parallel, 1877, 546 (upper Humboldt Valley, Nevada, and Parleys 

 Park, Utah). 



P[icu8\ gairdneri Coues, Ibis, 1865, 162, in text (Ft. Whipple, Arizona). 



[Picus pubescens.] Var. gairdneri Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 194, part. 



Pious pubescens gairdneri Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 22, 34 

 (upper Humboldt "Valley; Parleys Park); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 188, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 361a, part.— Drew, Bull. Nutt. 

 Om. Club, vi, 1881, 141'(San Juan Co., Colorado); Auk, ii, 1885, 17 (Colo- 

 rado, breeding at 4,500-11,500 ft.).— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 441, part. — Allen and Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 196 

 (Colorado Springs). — Beckham, Auk, ii, 1885, 143 (Pueblo, Colorado, May). — 

 (?)Meerill, Auk, v, 1888, 252 (Ft. Klamath, Oregon). 



Picus pubescens - . . var. gairdnerii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 299a, part. 



Picus pubescens . . . var. gairdneri Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 

 173 (Colorado). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 48 

 (Provo, Utah, Nov.), 89 (Ft. Garland, Colorado, breeding); Zool. Exp. 

 W. 100th Merid., 1875, 388 (Ft. Garland). 



[Picus pubescens] h. gairdneri Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 282, part. 



Picus pubescens, var. gairdneri Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 173 

 (Wahsatch Mts., Utah, 8,000 ft.). — Baird, Brewer, and' Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 512, part.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 

 1874, 63 (Missouri and Musselshell rivers, Montana).— Henshaw, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., xi, 1874, 9 (Wahsatch Mts. and Provo, Utah).— Scott, Bull. Nutt. 

 Om. Club, iv, 1879, 95 (Lake Co., Colorado, June). 



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