Newtonville Nov 10th 
vy dear lire Brewster: 
r \Viller telis ms 
at work on the western woodpeckers, and 7 want to call your atten- 
thon to a point evidently overlooked by batchelder in his descriptn 
of a white form of ). gardeneri (his name has gone from me) in 
ecent no of the \wk . Uabanis describes a white form ofua he 
1868 , p- 65, of D.x warden 
puts it a species in Mus ..ein (ol dy, 
and the following is an off hand translatiom of the verman text 
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Larger than the typical ~ rthern D. wardeneri of Audubon, 
DIMA 
vith, ite spots on the upper portions and wings and with purer 
white beneath Length, 7 wing 4, tail 2 Saliferda 
Now in spite of the fact that this D. homorus is givvenas 
coming from California, and as the season is nb mentioned,t ap- 
pears to cover, the larwe white subspecies of | gardaneri while 
-allerbees, name for the enaller form, also given from valifionia 
\ 
this name has .scaped me ) covers the small. thus 'dorot 
Lis 
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well see how another light subspecies can be named., | wnt, over & 
Snes AA £) G/? i aed ie a, * . 
ardazkers bhoroughly as possible and what’ 1 want’ to’ ’ indcar as 
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darker more spotted form than vardeneri. Audubon’s P. gardeneri, 
ake it was soiled white, and if my memory seres me he say so in 
sae) 
original description. | think three forms ouyht to be @iven of 
winged varpdeneri and had the white form not been named 
dark 
should have done it 
In reward to the jays it appeared to me that there isa un- 
pus = nity, +f 
»nanded form for all ‘eh sub-species all alony the coast. The is 
to say that whereever any of the subspecies reach the coast ther 
shoky little bandinys. Of course this sub-specifis difference will 
yp litt banding 
always be indicated by more of less individual variation in tms 

