550 



NORTH AMKKICAX BIKDS. 



Hylotomtis pileatus, Baird. 



BLACK WOODCOCK; LOG-COCK. 



Piciis pileatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 1766, 173. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 58, 

 pi. ex. —Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 27, pi. xxLx, f. 2. — Waolek, Syst, Av. 1827, 

 No. 2. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 74 ; V, 533, pi. cxi. — Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 

 266, pi. cclvii. — Maxim. Cab. Jour. VI. 1858, 352. — Sundevall, Consp. 8. Pieus 

 (Dryotomus) pileatus, Sw. F. Bor. Am. 11, 1831, 304. Dryotovius pilcalus, Bp. List, 

 1838. Ih-yucoptis pileatus, BoNAP. Consp. Av. 1850, 132. Dryopicns pileatus, Bon. 

 Consp. Zyg. Aten. Ital. I. — Sclater, Catal. 1862, 332. —Gray, Catal. 59. Pihated 

 Woodpceker, Pennant. — Latham. Ilyloiomus pileattui, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 

 107. — Lord, Pr. R, Art. Inst. IV, 212. — Cooper & SfCKLEV, 161. — Dresser, Ibi.s, 

 1865, 469 (E. Texas, but not Kio Grande). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 396. Ceoph- 

 locus pileatus. Car. Jour. 1862, 176. (Hylotoma, preoccupied by LatreUle ! !) Cab. & 

 Hein. Mus. Hein. IV, ii, 1863. — Samuels, 99. — Allen, B. E. Fla. 302. 



Sp. Char. Fourth and fifth quills equal and longest ; third intermediate between sixth 

 and seventh. Bill blue-black; more horn-color beneath. General color of body, wings, 



and tail duU greenish-black. 

 A narrow white streak from 

 jvist above the eye to the oc- 

 ciput; a wider one from the 

 nostril feathers (inclusive), 

 under the eye and along the 

 side of the head and neck ; 

 sides of the breast fconcealed 

 by the wing), axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts, and con- 

 cealed bases of all the quills, 

 with chin and beneath the 

 head, white, tinged with sul- 

 liluir-yellow. Entire crown 

 from the base of the bill to 

 a well-developed occipital 

 crest, as also a patch on the 

 ramus of the lower jaw, 

 scarlet-red. A few faint 

 white crescents on the sides 

 of the body and on the ab- 

 domen. Longer pi-imaries generally tipped with white. Length, about 18.00; wing, 9.50. 

 Female without the red on the cheek, and the anterior half of that on the top of the 

 head replaced by black. 



Had. Wooded parts of North America from Atlantic to Pacific. Localities : E. Texas 

 (not Rio (Jrande!), (Dresser, Ibis, 1S6.5, 469, breeds). 



Specimens of this species from Fort Liard in the Northern Eocky Moun- 

 tains, and from Piiget Sound region, are nearly fonr inches longer than those 

 from the Soutliern Atlantic States, and are scarcely exceeded in size by the 

 Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 



Specimens from the northwest coast region (Columbia IJiver, British 



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