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Ceryle alcyon caurina Grinnell. Western Belted Kingfisher

By streams and lakes everywhere in the lowlands. Present in the
region when we arrived, May 25, and up to the time of our departure,
September 26. One specimen collected (no. 42092).

Dryobates villosus monticola Anthony.
Rocky Mountain Hairy Woodpecker

Fairly common in the lowlands, mostly in deciduous timber.
Present during the whole of our stay; probably resident the year
through. Young were seen flying about on June 22; birds taken
September 1 had finished the molt. Twelve specimens collected (nos.
42093-42104), seven breeding adults, two in juvenal plumage, and
three in fresh fall plumage.

Dryobates pubescens leucurus (Hartlaub). Batchelder Woodpecker

In small numbers in deciduous woods in the lowlands. Young out
of the nest were taken June 29. Two specimens collected September 5
and 8, respectively, had finished the molt. Thirteen specimens in all
were collected (nos. 42104-42117).

A specimen of downy woodpecker from Fort Babine, in this same
general region, has been ascribed by Ridgway (1914, p. 239) to the
subspecies Dryobates pubescens glacialis Grinnell (type locality,
Prince William Sound, Alaska). This induced comparison of the
Skeena Valley series with the four Alaskan specimens of glacialis at
hand, and the two lots were found to be indistinguishable. In the
original description of glacialis (Grinnell, 1910, p. 390), comparisons
are made with nelsoni, of the interior of Alaska, and gairdneri, of the
coast of British Columbia. The American Ornithologists’ Union Com-
mittee (1912, p. 386) refused recognition to the race glacialis on the
grounds that it was an “‘intergrade between D. p. nelsoni and gaird-
neri.”’ Ridgway (1914, p. 239) accords recognition to glacialis, but,
in describing the race, compares it again with the Alaskan nelsoni,
and also with the eastern medianus.

So far, no comparisons had been made between glacialis and the
downy woodpecker of the more southern Rocky Mountains, D. p.
homorus of recent literature. The Skeena Valley series, however, was
taken sufficiently near the known range of that subspecies to suggest
the desirability of such comparisons. Pertinent material is at hand