The Hairy Woodpeckers 
No. 190c White-breasted Woodpecker 
A. O. U. No. 393d, part. Dryobates villosus leucothorectis Oberholser. 
Synonyms.— Southwestern Hairy Woodpecker. Arizona Hairy Wood¬ 
pecker. 
Description. — Adults: Similar to D. v. onus, but slightly smaller; the under¬ 
parts pure white. A very dubious race. Males average: wing 126.8 (4.99); tail 79.4 
(3.126); bill 30.8 (1.21); tarsus 21.5 (.846). Females smaller. 
Range of D. v. leucothorectis. —Canadian and Transition areas of the desert ranges 
of the Southwestern States. 
Range in California. —At least the White and Panamint Mountains. 
Authority.—Grinnell, Condor, vol. xx., 1918, p. 86. 
No. I90d Harris’s Woodpecker 
A. O. U. No. 393c. Dryobates villosus harrisi (Audubon). 
Description. —Similar to D. v. orius, but underparts (including lateral rectrices) 
much darker, buffy brown, or pale snuff-brown; white of back and head usually tinged 
with buff}' brownish, the white never pure save on superciliaries, and back-patch, and 
(always) spots of wings. Length and proportions not appreciably different. 
Nesting. —As in D. v. hyloscopus. 
Range of D. v. harrisi. —Humid Pacific coastal region from southeastern Alaska 
to Humboldt Bay; south in winter to Monterey. 
Distribution in California. —Common resident of the humid northwest coastal 
counties; east in winter through the Siskiyou Mountains, and irregularly south to 
Monterey. 
Authorities.—Newberry ( Ficus harrisi ), Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. x., pt. iv, 
1:859, P- 89 (n. Calif.); Shufeldt, Auk, vol. v., 1888, p. 212, figs, (pterylosis); Anderson 
and Grinnell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1903, p. 7 (Siskiyou Mts.; crit.); Jenkins, 
Auk, vol. xxiii., 1906, p. 168, map (variation, distr., etc.); Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., vol. xl., 1911, p. 597 (monogr.). 
THE HAIRY Woodpeckers in their three localized forms may be 
said roughly to occupy all the mountain forests and timbered streams in 
California; but the occupation is not a close one at the lower levels; and 
the bird is decidedly more abundant in the northern and more elevated 
portions of its range. Again, the depths of the forest do not often claim 
him, for his favorite resorts are old burns and the edges of clearings, 
logged-off areas, open, rangy woods, and interrupted groves. In summer 
the bird ranges up to timberline, a little above the normal breeding 
level; and in winter it visits the live oaks and the sycamores, or even 
takes a turn through the chaparral. Although a resident, therefore, in 
the accommodated sense, the year around, we are quite likely to over¬ 
look his presence until cold weather appears to quicken his pulses, and 
to send him careering noisily over the treetops. He has spent the night, 
it may be, in the heart of a fir stub at the end of his winter tunnel, and 
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