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Ceryle alcyon caurina Grinnell. Western Belted Kingfisher 



By streams and lakes everywhere in the lowlands. Present in the 

 region when we arrived, May 25, and up to the time of our departure, 

 September 26. One specimen collected (no. 42092). 



Dryobates villosus monticola Anthony. 

 Rocky Mountain Hairy Woodpecker 

 Fairly common in the lowlands, mostly in deciduous timber. 

 Present during the whole of our stay; probably resident the year 

 through. Young were seen flying about on June 22; birds taken 

 September 1 had finished the molt. Twelve specimens collected (nos. 

 42093-42104), seven breeding adults, two in juvenal plumage, and 

 three in fresh fall plumage. 



Dryobates pubescens leucurus (Hartlaub). Batchelder Woodpecker 



In small numbers in deciduous woods in the lowlands. Young out 

 of the nest were taken June 29. Two specimens collected September !j 

 and 8, respectively, had finished the molt. Thirteen specimens in all 

 were collected (nos. 42104-42117). 



A specimen of downy woodpecker from Fort Babine, in this same 

 general region, has been ascribed by Ridgway (1914, p. 239) to the 

 subspecies Dryobates pubescens glacialis Grinnell (type locality, 

 Prince William Sound, Alaska). This induced comparison of the 

 Skeena Valley series with the four Alaskan specimens of glacialis at 

 hand, and the two lots were rfound to be indistinguishable. In the 

 original description of glacialis (Grinnell, 1910, p. 390), comparisons 

 are made with nelsoni, of the interior of Alaska, and gairdneri, of the 

 coast of British Columbia. The American Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee (1912, p. 386) refiised recognition to the race glacialis on the 

 grounds that it was an "intergrade between D. p. nelsoni and gaird- 

 neri." Ridgway (1914, p. 239) accords recognition to glacialis, but, 

 in describing the race, compares it again with the Alaskan nelsoni, 

 and also with the eastern medUmiis. 



So far, no comparisons had been made between glacialis and the 

 downy woodpecker of the more southern Rocky Mountains, D. p. 

 homorus of recent literature. The Skeena Valley series, however, was 

 taken sufficiently near the known range of that subspecies to suggest 

 the desirability of sixch comparisons. Pertinent material is at hand 



