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DRYOBATES PUBESCENS GLACIALIS Grianell. 



VALDEZ DOWNY WOODFECKEB. 



Intermediate in size between D. p. nelsoni and D. p. medianus, but 

 iiffering from both in absence of white sub-basal spots on greater 

 idng-coverts, reduction of size, or number, of white spots on middle 

 30verts, and more spot-like or rounded form of white markings on inner 

 secondaries; under parts less purely white (more grayish) ? 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 152-162 (157); wing, 94-99 (96); 

 tail, 57-60 (58.7); exposed culmen, 16-17 (16.3); tarsus, 16.5-17 

 (16.8); outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.5).° 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 155-162 (158); wing, 96-99 (97.2); 

 tail, 59-63.5 (61.2); exposed culmen, 16-17 (16.5); tarsus, 16-17 

 (16.5); outer anterior toe, 10.5-11 (10.7).'^ 



Kenai Peninsula (Homer; Moose Camp), shores and islands of 

 Prince WilUam Sound (Valdez Narrows; Naked Island) and east- 

 ward along coast of Alaska to Taku River; northern British Columbia 

 (Fort Babine) ?* 



Pieus pubescens (not of Linnaeus) Finsch, Abh. Nat. Brem., iii, 1872, 60 (Alexan- 

 drovsk, Alaska). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 299, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 , 440, part. — Baikd, Beewek, and Ridgwat, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 509, 



part. — RiDGWAT, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 361, part. — Haetlatjb, Joum. 

 fur Orn., 1883, 275 (Chilcat R., Alaska). 

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

 P\icMs\ pubescens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 483, part. 

 ' Dryobates pubescens American Oknithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 394, part.— (?)Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 156, part (Sitka?). 

 D[ryobates] pubescens Bidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 283, part. 

 Dryobates pubescens nelsoni (not of Oberholser) Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 xvi, 1902, 239 (Homer, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, Sept.); xx, 1904, 402 

 (Moose Camp, Kenai Peninsula, Sept.; crit.). 

 Dryobates pubescens gladalis Geinnell (J.), Univ. Calif. Pub. ZooL, v, no. 12, 

 March 5, 1910, 390 (Valdez Narrows, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Sept.; 

 coll. Mus. Vert. Zool. Univ. Calif.). — Swaeth, Univ. Calif. Pub. ZooL, vii, 

 1911, 68 (Taku R., Alaska; crit.; habits). 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS TURATI (Malherbe). 



WILLOW WOODPECKEK. 



Similar in pattern of coloration to D. p. homorus, but decidedly 

 smaller and with white of under parts much duller. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 145-163 (154); wing, 88.5-97 (92.6); 

 tail, 53.5-60.5 (55); exposed cuhnen, 15-17 (16.3); tarsus, 15-17 

 (16.1); outer anterior toe, 9-11.5 (10.5)." 



"' Three specimens. 



* A breeding bird from Fort Babine, in the interior of northern British Columbia, 

 is very near this form in its characters, but has indications of white subbasal spots on the 

 ^eater wing-coverts. Its measurements are essentially the same (wing, 94; exposed 

 culmen, 16; tarsus, 16.5; outer anterior toe, 10). 



5 Ten specimens. 



