CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 3OI 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Twelve ; all taken by Mr. Spreadborough. They were secured 

 at Agassiz, Chilliwack and Burrard Inlet, B.C., and Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island. 



39sd. Cabanis's Woodpecker. 



Dryobates villosus hyloscopus (Cab.) Brewst. 1888. 



Under this form we place a few skins examined by Mr. F. Chap- 

 man and labelled " approaching hyloscopus." They come exactly 

 between the western and eastern forms and include the whole 

 Rocky Mountain region. , 



This form was common at Canmore and Banff in the Rocky 

 Mountains in the summer of 1891. Very common at Revelstoke, 

 B.C., in burnt woods in April, 1890. Not uncommon at Kam- 

 loops, B.C., in June, 1889. Mr. Spreadborough reports seeing 

 a hairy woodpecker at Trail, Cascade and Waneta, B.C., on the 

 49th parallel in the summer of 1902. It was doubtless this form. 

 {Macoun.) Near Little Salmon River, Yukon River, Yukon 

 district, N.W.T. (Bishop.) 



MUSEUM specimens. 



Five ; taken at Canmore, Alta., in May, 1891 ; at Revelstoke, 

 B.C., in April, 1890, and at Kamloops, June i8th, 1889, by Mr. 

 Spreadborough. 



393/: Queen Charlotte Woodpecker. 



Dryobates villosus picoideus (Osgood.) A. O. U. Comm. 

 1902. 



Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. {Osgood.) 

 -894. Downy Woodpecker. 



Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swains.) Brewster. 1897. 



Very common in Newfoundland and a resident. (Reeks.) 

 Fairly common along the Humber River, Newfoundland. (Z. H. 

 Porter.) Common and resident in southern portions of Labrador ; 

 probably does not range north of Lat. 56°. (Packard.) Only one 

 specimen observed on Moose River, June 6th, 1896 ; none in Lab- 

 rador. (Spreadborough.) Seen during the winter at Lake Mistas- 

 sini, northern Quebec. (/. M. Macoun) 

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