WOODPECKERS: BATCHELDER WOODPECKER 405 
or less streaked on chest and flanks. Young female: Similar to adult male but 
without red on head. 
Comparisons. —The Downy Woodpeckers of various geographic forms are 
smaller counterparts of corresponding geographic forms of the Hairy with the 
white stripe down the back and the red patch on the back of the head; differing 
Map 22. Batchelder Woodpecker 
Yearlong records, mainly in Transition Zone 
from them only in size and the color pattern of the outer tail feathers, which are 
white in the Hairy and barred with black in most of the Downy Woodpeckers, 
although in this Rocky Mountain form there is a tendency to reduction or absence 
of bars. 
Range. —Apparently resident in Canadian and Transition Zones from British 
Columbia, east of Cascades, to Montana, extreme eastern Colorado, and western 
Nebraska, south to New Mexico, and eastern California. 
State Records. —The form of the Downy Woodpecker breeding in New Mexico 
was separated in 1889 by Batchelder under the name oreoecus with the type from 
