BIRDS PICIDAE PICUS PUBESCENS. 
List of specimens. 
89 
Whitby's island, W. T . 
Steilacoom, W.T 
do. 
Spokane river, W. T . . 
do 
Vancouver, W.T 
do 
Shoalwater bay,W.T.. 
Columbia river 
Fort Dalles, O. T 
dt 
St. Helens, O. T 
Petaluma, Cal 
ta Clara, Ca] 
Tulare valley, Cal 
Tcjon valley, Cal 
Santa Isabel, Cal 
do. 
Little Colorado Riv 
Nebraska 
Fort Fillmore, Tex. 
Rio Grande, N. M... 
Whence obtained. 
Dr. J. G. Cooper 
Dr. Suckley 
Feb. — , 1856 
do 
Mar. — , 1856 
May 1, 1856 
Mar. — , 1856 
Oct. 27, 1853 
Nov. 1, 1853 
Dec. 10, 1853 
July — , 1853 
Sept. 9, 1854 
Sept. 27, 1834 
Sept. — , 1851 
Mar. 10, 1855 
Jan. 27, 185S 
Aug. — , 1856 
Nov. — , 1855 
S. F. Baird 
Dr. Suckley 
10. Samuels 
Dr. J. G. Cooper. . 
Lieut. Williamson. 
Dee. 8, 1853 
Oct. 15, 1855 
fLieut. Whipple .... 
Captain Tope 
Dr. Henry, U. S. A . 
Dr. D.C. Peters. 
Ins hazel; bill black; 
feet bluish. 
J. K. Townsend . 
9.87 
10.00 
5.00 
5.00 
Dr. Heermann 
..do 
Eyes black 
Eyes black; feet dark 
gray; gums yellow. 
PICUS PUBESCENS, L. 
Downy Woodpecker; Sapsucker. 
Picus pubescens, L. Syst. Nat. I, 17GG, 15.— Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, lc07, G5 ; pi. exxi.— Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 
18(18, 153 ; pi. ix.— Wagler, Syst. Avium, 1837, No. 23.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 81 : V, 539 ; 
pi. 112.— In. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 249 ; pi. 2G3. 
Picus (Dendrocopus) pubescens, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 307. 
Picus (Trichopicus) pubescens, Bonap. Consp. Zyg. Aten. and Cal. 1854, 8. 
? Picus medianus, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 30s. 
Picus meridionalis, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 308. (Small southern race.) 
Picus lecontii, Jones, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. IV, 1848, 489 ; pi. xviii. (Georgia. Three toed variety. Type of Tridactylia, Bp.) 
Sp. Ch. — A minature of P. villosus. Above black, with a white band down the back. Two white stripes on the side of the 
head ; the lower of opposite sides always separated the upper sometimes confluent on the nape. Two stripes of black on the 
side of the head, the lower not running into the forehead. Beneath white ; wing much spotted with white ; the larger coverts 
with two series eacli ; tertiaries or inner secondaries all banded with white. Two outer tail [feathers white, with two bands of 
black at end ; third white at tip and externally. Length about 6± inches ; wing 3|. Male with red, terminating the white 
feathers on the nape. 
Hob. — Eastern United States, towards the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains. 
Third and fourth quills equal and longest, second a little shorter, and then the third. Upper 
parts black, the middle of the back as far as the rump with a broad stripe of white, the feathers 
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