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(usually more or less pale — sometimes pale yellowish or pinkish), 

 the reddish or yellowish tips to the feathers often preceded by a 

 small spot or streak of white; black parts of plumage duller. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but without any red- 

 dish or yellowish on crown, which, however, is sometimes minutely 

 streaked or spotted with whitish. 



Middle districts of eastern United States and adjacent portions of 

 Canada (Upper Austral and Transition and southern edge of Cana- 

 dian life zones); north to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, ^Minnesota, etc., south to Maryland, Virginia 

 (except southern coast district?), higher parts of North and South 

 Carolina, Tennessee, etc., West Virginia, Kentucky (except Mississippi 

 lowlands), southern Indiana, Illinois, and ^Missouri (except lowlands 

 of ^Mississippi, lower Ohio, and lower Wabash rivers), northwestern 

 Texas (Lipscomb, breeding), etc., west to eastern border of the Great 

 Plains. 



(The range of this intermediate form can be stated only in general 

 terms; northward specimens are larger, approaching D. v. septen- 

 trionalis, especially in Maine; southward it grades into D. v. audu- 

 honii — the dividing line, in both cases, being practically impossible of 

 exact definition, in fact a matter of arbitrary decision.) 



[Picus] villosus LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 175 (New Jersey; based on 

 Picus varius medius quasi villosus Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 19; Picus 

 varius virginianus Brisson, Orn., iv, 48; etc.). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 

 1788, 435. — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 232. — Reichenbach, Handb. 

 Scansores, Picin^, 1854, 374, pi. 638, figs. 4252^254.— Gray, Hand-list, 

 ii, 1870, 184, no. 8592, part.— CorES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 193.— 

 D'Hamonville, Cat. Ois. Eur., 1876, 10 (accidental in England). 



Picus villosus ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 64, pi. 120; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xxvi, 1818, 71, part.— Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, pi. 9, fig. 3.— 

 Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., ix, 1815, 171. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ii, part i, 1826 (Synop. Birds U. S.), 46; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 39.— 

 Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 228.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 

 Land Birds, 1832, 575; 2d ed., 1840, 683.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 

 1G4, pi. 416; Synopsis, 1839, 179; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 244, pi. 262.— 

 Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 74, part. — ^L^lherbe, Mon. Picid., 

 i, 1861, 75; iii, 1861, pi. 21, figs. 1, 2.— Sundevall, Consp. Av. Piciu., 1866, 

 16. — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, ISO (e. Kansas). — Harting, 

 Man. Brit. Birds, 1872, 122 (accidental in England; 3 records). — Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 298, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 438, part; Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 615 (Turtle Mt., North Dakota).— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 49, figs. 3, 

 4, 5.— Brewster, Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1875, 144 (Ritchie Co., West Vii-- 

 ginia; crit.); Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, iii, 1878, 179 (descr. young male). — 

 Dalgleish, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 73 (accid. in England). — Ridg- 

 way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 188; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 360. 



P[icus] villosus BoNNATERRE and Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. M^th., iii, 1823, 1305. — 

 Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 369; Obs. Wilson's 

 Am. Cm., 1826, [30].— Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Picus, sp. 27, part.— Gray, 



