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Dryobates piibescens turati Fisher (W. K.), Condor, iv, May, 1902, 68 (diagnosis; 

 crit.). — Gkinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 37 (California 

 «ange). — ^American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xx, 1903, 341 

 (check list no. 394«); Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 187.— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1904, 581 (Mt. Sanhedria, n. California; crit.). — ^Widmann, Auk, 

 xxi, 1904, 68 (Yosemite Valley).— Sharp, Condor, ix, 1907, 87 (San Diego Co., 

 California, breeding). — Goldman, Condor, x, 1908, 203 (Summit Lake and 

 Tulare Co., CaUfomia, June). 

 ' (7)PiCMS pubescens (not of Linnseus) Ridgwat, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, iii, 1878, 67 

 (Marysville, Yuba Co., California, Dec. 27; crit.). — Ridgwat and Belding, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 428 (Marysville). o 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS GAIRDNERn (Audubon). 



GAIBDNES'S WOODFECKEK. 



Similar to D. p. turati, but color of under parts darker (often light 

 brownish gray or drab), the white of back often tinged with brownish 

 gray. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 150-160 (156); wing, 92-97 (95.1); 

 tail, 53-64 (58.1); exposed culmen, 15-19 (16.4); tarsus, 16-18 

 (16.6); outer anterior toe," 10.5-12 (11.1).* 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 151-167 (157); wing, 91.5-100 

 (92.8); tail, 53-60 (57.5); exposed culmen, 14.5-17 (15.5); tarsus, 

 15.5-17 (16.4); outer anterior toe, 10-11.5 (10.9) .» 



Humid Transition Zone of northwest coast district, from southern 

 British Columbia (Victoria; Saturna Island; Port Moody; Agassiz; 

 Vernon; New Westminster; Mount Lehman; Kalama) southward 

 through western Washington and Oregon to Mendocino and Siskiyou 

 C!ounties (occasionally to Marin County, at least in winter), California. 



Picas gairdnerii Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1889, 317 (no locality given, but type 

 from near Ft. Vancouver, Washington; type lost?); Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 

 1842, 252.— Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 89 (n. 

 California; Oregon). — Lord, Proc. Roy. Artil. Inst. Woolwich, iv, 1860, 111 

 (Brit. Columbia). 



Pims gairdneri Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 180. — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 91, part (Shoalwater Bay and Ft. Steilacoom, Washington; St. 

 Helens and Ft. Dalles, Oregon); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 85, figs. 

 2, 3; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 77, part.— Sclatbr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1859, 236 (Vancouver I.). — Cooper and Sucklet, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 159 (w. Oregon and Washington). — ^Malherbe, Men. 

 Picid., i, 1861, 123.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1863, 201 (crit.).- 

 Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 17. — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., 

 Picidae, 1868, 44, part (Vancouver I.).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 419 (Van- 

 couver I.). — Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 377, part. 



« The specimen noted agrees with typical D. p. turati in small size and decidedly 

 smoky whitish coloration of the under parts, but has the middle wing-coverts heavily 

 and numerously spotted with white, and the greater coverts with a sub -basal row of 

 white spots, as in the eastern forms. It is a very puzzling specimen, but I am now 

 inclined to regard it aa merely an aberrant specimen of D. p. turati 



^ Ten specimens. 



3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 ^16 



