WOODPECKERS 201 



GENUS DRYOBATES. 



General Characters. — Bill straight, square at tip, beveled toward end, 

 with sharp culmen aud distinct lateral ridges, and large nasal tufts hiding- 

 the nostrils ; tongue greatly extensile ; feet with outer hind toe longer than 

 outer front toe ; wing long, pointed. 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



1. Upper parts brown arizoiiae, p. 2()(). 



1. Upper parts black, marked with white. 

 2. Outer tail feathers plain white. 



3. Upper parts black, barred with white .... nuttallii, p. 205. 

 3'. Upper parts black, with a white stripe down back. 



4. Wing coverts and tertials conspicuously spotted with white. 



leucomelas. p. 201. 

 4', Wing coverts and tertials plain black or lightly spotted with 

 white. 



5. Under parts smoky gray liarrisii, p. 202. 



5'. Under parts pure white. 



6. Smaller hy lose opus, p. 202. 



6'. Larger monticola, p. 203. 



2'. Outer tail feathers white, barred with black. 

 3. Upper parts black, barred with white. 



4. Outer web of outer tail feather barred for more than terminal 



half • • • ^airdi. p. 204. 



4. Outer web of outer tail feather barred for only terminal half or 



less lucasanus, 205. 



3'. Upper parts black, with white .stripe down back. 



4. Wing coverts conspicuously spotted with white. Middle and 



northern United States . ' mediailUS, p. 204. 



4'. Wing coverts not conspicuously spotted with white. 

 '). Under parts pure white. Rocky Mountain region. 



honioius, p. 203. 

 5'. Under parts snioky gray or brown. British ("olumbia to Cali- 

 fornia gairdnerii, p. 203. 



393a. Dryobates villosus leucomelas {Bvdd.). Northern 



HaIKV WoOin'KCKKK. 



Adult mah . — Upper parts black, with a scarlet band across back of 

 crown, wliite stripe down back and ir'nuj coverts 

 and trrtials CDnsjjicttoiisli/ spotted irit/t white ; outer 

 tail feathei-s plain white ; under parts pure cUar 

 whit»'. Adult female : similar, but without red 

 on liead. Younq : crown with red. Len<jth : Fii,'. .'(ks. 



10-11, wing .•).02"-r).4<). tail :;.r,i»-;;.s(), bill 1.40-1. <".•_'. 



Distribution. — Northern North America, south to .iltoiit tlie noitlieni 

 border of the United States. 



Nest. — In holes in trees. E(j<js : white. 



Food. — Larvai of wood-boring insects, ants, and a small amount of wil.l 

 fruit, berries, and beechnuts. 



Tlic liairy woodixckcr. of wlialcvcr gcogrupliic race, is a (luict. 

 solitary bin! of the timber, and you may ride tliroiigli the forests 

 (lay after (lay without seeing it, as its stu-prisini:- absence from yonr 



