BIRDS—PICIDAE—PIOUS PUBESCENS. 
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List of specimens. 
Oatal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
5960 
6089 
6090 
6091 
Whitby’s island, W. T .r 
April —, 1855 
£ 
85 
o 
9 
9 
3 
3 
9 
9 
9 
A 
96 
Feb. —, 1856 
233 
10.00 
15.50 
6092 
6093 
6094 
6095 
6084 
6085 
236 
Mar. —, 1856 
May 1, 1856 
Mar. , 1856 
245 
352 
9.00 
15.62 
280 
Spokane river, W. T ... 
Oet. 27, 1853 
Nov. 1, 1853 
Dec. 10, 1853 
15 
18 
6087 
3 
3 
3 
9 
9 
9 
9 
9 
a 
6 
9.50 
16.50 
6086 
July —, 1853 
Sept. 9, 1854 
Sept. 27, 1834 
Sept. —, 1854 
Mar. 10, 1855 
6088 
Shoalwater bay, W. T... 
Dr. J. G. Cooper ... 
S. F. Baird. 
92 
9.75 
16.00 
1869 
J. K. Townsend . 
feet bluish. 
6083 
144 
9.87 
16.00 
5.00 
4575 
149 
10.00 
16.00 
5.00 
Iris brown. 
4597 
Jan. 27, 1856 
202 
5498 
5961 
Nov. —, 1855 
6082 
3 
3 
A 
6081 
4589 
17 
6080 
9 
3 
17 
6079 
Little Colorado River, 
TJLieut. Whipple .... 
35 
5071 
3 
3 
9 
9 
3 
Oct. 15, 1855 
145 
10.50 
15.00 
5.00 
Eyes black; feet dark 
gray; gums yellow. 
6076 
Dr. Henry, U. S. A . 
.dn. 
6077 
6078 
8489 
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PICUS PUBESCENS, L. 
Downy Woodpecker; Sapsucker. 
Picus pubescens, L. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 15.— Yieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, lfe07, 65 ; pi. cxxi.— Wilson, Am. Orn. 1, 
1808, 153 ; pi. ix.— Wagler, Syst. Avium, 1827, No. 23.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 8] : Y, 539 ; 
pi. 112.— Ib. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 249 ; pi. 263. 
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, 308. 
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 Tridaclylia, 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 each ; 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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