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Order PICI. 

 woodpeckers, wrynecks, etc. 



Toes only two in frout, or, if three, the middle and outer toes connected for 

 at least half their length. Tail feathers stiff and more or less pointed, and bill 

 more or less chisel-like. (Eidc/way.) 



Family PlCID-ffi. Woodpeckers. 



'•Outer toe turned backwards permanently, not versatile laterally, the basal 

 portion of the tongue capable of great protrusion." 



Genus DRYOBATES Boie. 



Without crest, and size small (wing not more than 5.00). Nasal groove ex- 

 tending nearly to top of bill; terminal half of bill not distinctly compressed. 

 Tongue greatly extensile; plumage much varied with black (or brown) and white, 

 the latter prevailing on lower parts. {Bidgway.) 



Dryobates villosus (Liistn.). 



HAIRY WOODPECKER. 

 PLATE XXII. 



Kesident; common. Begin laying the last of April. 



B. 74. K. 360. C. 438. G. 167, 153. U. 393. 



Habitat. Middle portion of the eastern United States, from 



the Atlantic coast to near the base of the Rocky Mountains. 



Sp. Chak. "Above, black, with a white band down the middle of the back. 

 All the middle and larger M'iug coverts and all the quills with conspicuous spots 

 of white. Two white stripes on each side of the head; the upper scarcely con- 

 fluent behind, the lower not at all so; two black stripes confluent with the black 

 of the nape. Beneath white. Three outer tail feathers with the exposed por- 

 tions white. Male with a nuchal scarlet crescent (wanting in the female) cov- 

 ering the white, generally continuous, but often interrupted in the middle. 

 Immature birds of either sex with more or less of the whole crown spotted with 

 red or yellow, or both, sometimes the red almost continuous." 



stretch of 



Length. wing. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



Male 9.10 15.00 4.80 3.40 .85 1.20 



Female... 8.75 14.75 4.70 3.25 .85 1.15 



Iris brown; bill pale horn bine, darkest terminally, tips whit- 

 ish; legs and feet bluish gray; claws black. 



