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doubtedly refers to the unmarked white outer tail feathers of a considerable per 
cent of the specimens from the northern Rocky Mts. (Montana). This character 
gives the under side of the tail a wholly white aspect. According to Malherbe 
the specimen was not seen by Hartlaub (he publishing Prince Paul of Wurtem- 
burg’s MS. description ) but was then (1863) in Wurtemburg’s collection at Morgent- 
heim. Consequently it seems reasonable to call the Rocky Mt. race Dryobates 
pubescens leiicurus (Hartlaub). As the meager material at hand does not justify 
the separation of the very closely related California birds on the strength of their 
slightly smaller size, the name will apply to them also. At some future time it 
may become expedient to separate the white-bellied California form under Caban- 
is’s name homorus. 
The following is a synopsis of our western races of the downy woodpecker, 
a. Under parts pure white. 
b. White markings more extended; remiges heavily spotted and tertials barred with white; 
wing coverts conspicuously spotted with same. Geog. dist. Alaska, northern British Amer- 
ica, south along the mountains of British Columbia and Alberta to southern British America. 
Dryobates pubescens nelsoni Oberholser, Nelson Downy Woodpecker. 
bb. Wings not heavily spotted, and tertials not barred; wing coverts rather sparsely spotted, 
the lesser not at all. Geog. dist. Rocky Alt. region from northern boundary of U. S south in- 
to New Mexico and west through Great Basin to desert ranges of California, and east slope of 
middle and southern Sierra Nevada; west in migration to Fort Tejon, Cal. 
Dryobates pubescens leucnrus (Hartlaub), Batchelder Woodpecker. 
Picus leucurus “Herz. v. Wurttemburg” Hartlaub, Xauntannia II, pt. 2, 1852, 55. 
D [^lyobates] hojnorus Cabanis, Museum Heineanum IVq 1863, 65. 
Dryobates pubescens oreoecus Batchelder, Auk VI, 1899, 253. 
Dryobates pubescens homorus Man. N. Am. Eds. lA 1896, 597. A. O. U. 
Comm., Auk XIV, 1897, 126. 
aa. Under parts smoky, not pure, white. 
b. Larger and darker; breast brownish smoky, suffusing white of sides of head and back; 
tertials seldom spotted; feet targe. Geog, dist. Coast region, from B. C. (lat. 55°) south 
through western Washington and Oregon to northwestern California. Dryobates pubescens 
gairdneri (XxAwhon), Gairdner Woodpecker. 
bb. Smaller and lighter, the breast averaging lighter; wdiite of rictal stripe, sides of neck, 
suj)erciliary patch, and median stripe of back pure (except in intermediates); tertials always 
spotted with snlxiie', feet smatt . Geog, dist. California, except: desert ranges and eastern slope 
of Sierra Nevada, coast region north of Marin Co., and region north of upper end of Sacra- 
mento Valley.. Dryobates pubescens turati (Malherbe) Nobis, Willow Woodpecker. 
List of localities from which specimens have been examined; starred (*) loc- 
alities are breeding records. D. p. gairdneri. California: Crescent City*, 
Hornbrook*; Oregon: Columbia R., Fort Klamath*, McCoy, Polk Co., Newport. 
Washington; Shoalwater Bay, .Seattle; B. C.: Babine, Victoria*. D. p. turati', 
California: Big Trees*, Calaveras Co., El Monte, Marysville, Monterey*, Nevada 
City*, Pacific Grove*, Palo Alto*. Pasadena*, Red Bluff, Sacramento Valley, San 
Jose. vSanta Barbara*, Saticoy, Yuba Co., V-olcano. 
hitermediaies between turati and gairdneri. California: Baird*, Ft. Crook, 
Mendocino Co.*, Mt. Lassen*, Mt. Shasta* (close to gairdno i), Nicasio*, Siskiyou 
Mts. (close to gairdneri), Mt. St. Helena*. 
D. p. leucurus. California: Ft. Tejon, Kernville, Quincy: Nevada: Up- 
per Humboldt Valley; Colorado: h'ort Gastland*; Wvoaiing: h't. Bridger*, 
Laramie R.*, sources of Cheyenne; Montana: Bitter Root Valley, Ft. Keogh*, 
Ft. Custer, Hillsdale Gallatin Co.*, Mussel Shell*, Taylor Fork Gallatin Co.* 
F'or the use of specimens I am much indebted to Mr. Joseph Grinnell, Mr. 
Robert Ridgway and Dr. C. Hart Merriam, and for advice and criticism to Dr. A. 
K. Fisher and Mr. Harry C. Oberholser. 
