224 Birds of Colorado 
Key oF THE SPECIES. 
A. Back black, with a longitudinal central white patch. 
a. Outer tail-feathers plain white. 
al Larger; wing about 5; wing-coverts unspotted. 
D. v. monticola, p. 224. 
b! Smaller, wing about 4-8; wing-coverts profusely white- 
spotted. D. villosus, p. 225. 
b. Outer tail-feathers barred with black ; smaller wing, about 4-0. 
D. p. homorus, p. 226: 
B. Back black, cross-barred black and white. D. s. bairdi, p. 227. 
Rocky Mountain Hairy Woodpecker. 
Dryobates villosus monticola. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 393e—Colorado Records—Allen 72, p. 151, 163 ; 
Aiken 72, p. 206 (Picus villosus harrisi); Henshaw 75, p. 386; Scott 
79, p. 95; Drew 81, p. 140; 85, p. 17; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 196; 
Morrison 86, p. 36; 88, p. 107; 89, p. 67; Beckham 87, p. 121; 
Kellogg 90, p. 87 ; Bendire 92, p. 53 (D. v. hyloscopus) ; Lowe 94, p. 268 ; 
Anthony 96, p. 32; Cooke 97, pp. 82, 207 ; Henderson 03, p. 235; 09, 
p. 231; Gilman 07, p. 154; Rockwell 08, p. 164; Warren 09, p. 14; 
Hersey & Rockwell 09, p. 118. 
Description. Male—Above black; « red nape band and a white 
stripe down the middle of the back; wing-quills spotted with white 
on the outer web, but the tertiaries and coverts plain black; outer 
tail-feathers plain white ; below, patch on the lores, a stripe behind 
the eye and below the eye to the nape white, not smoky ; iris brown, 
bill dusky horn, legs dusky greyish. Length 9-25; wing 5-2; tail 3-6; 
culmen 1-2; tarsus -95 
The female is slightly smaller—wing 5-0, and has no red nuchal band. 
A young bird has the crown mostly red. 
Distribution.—The Rocky Mountain region from Montana to northern 
New Mexico, east to north-east Nebraska, west to the Uintah Mountains 
of Utah. 
In Colorado the Rocky-Mountain form of the Hairy Woodpecker 
is @ common resident from the plains to timber line. In the winter 
it is chiefly met with at lower elevations in the plains and foothills, 
while in summer it resorts to the pine forests between 8,000 and 10,000 
feet, but it is by no means strictly confined within these limits. 
The following are notices of its occurrence: Estes Park (Kellogg), 
Boulder co., breeding in the mountains, wintering in the valley (Gale 
and Henderson), Mount Lincoln, near timber line (Allen), Barr Lake 
district (Hersey and Rockwell); El Paso co., commoner in winter 
