BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 261 



DRYOBATES ARIZONA ARIZONiE (Hargitt). 



ARIZONA WOODPECKER. 



Similar to I), stricklandi, but without any white on back or riunp; 

 brown of back, etc., lighter, and markings on foreneck, chest, and 

 breast in form of large rounded or subcordate spots instead of streaks. 



Adult male in autumn and winter. — Pileum and hindneck deep sooty 

 brown (warm sepia to dark sepia), becoming paler (more smoky 

 browm) on forehead and nasal tufts, interrupted by a nuchal crescent 

 of bright red (poppy red to scarlet vermilion) ; auricular region simi- 

 lar, sometimes rather lighter and grayer brown; back, scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, rump, and general color of remiges plain grayish brown 

 (deep broccoli brown or drab), the last (except two outermost) 

 marked on outer webs with rather small quadrate or triangular spots 

 of white, except on terminal portion, the distal secondaries similarly 

 marked, but with smaller spots; upper tail-coverts and tail similar 

 to or darker than pileum in color, the former sometimes having a 

 few feathers narrowly tipped with white, the two outer pairs of 

 normal rectrices broadly barred with white on terminal portion 

 (about five white bars, including terminal one, on outer web, fewer 

 on inner web, these white bars sometimes broader than the dusky 

 interspaces) ; inner webs of remiges (except terminal third or more 

 of longer primaries) spotted or broadly barred with white; a narrow 

 postocular stripe and broader rictal stripe, extending posteriorly 

 beneath orbital and auricular regions, white, both confluent pos- 

 teriorly with a large white area on side of neck; a broad, usually 

 more or less broken or interrupted malar stripe of dark sooty brown 

 or sepia (the anterior portion usually barred or spotted with whitish), 

 continued posteriorly to lower portion of sides of neck, where much 

 broader than anteriorly; under parts dull white, spotted, except on 

 chin and at least upper part of throat, with dark sooty brown, the 

 spots largest and usually roundish or sub-cordate, but sometimes 

 guttate on chest or breast, the flanks and under tail-coverts broadly 

 barred vnih dark sooty browm or dusky; bill horn color, darker toward 

 culmen; legs and feet grayish olive or greenish gray (in dried skins). 



Adult male in spring and summer. — Similar to the autumn and 

 winter plumage, but brown of upper parts paler, inclining more or 

 less toward isabella color, and red nuchal crescent more scarlet. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but %\'ithout any red on 

 nape. 



Young male. — ^Essentially like the autumnal or winter adult male, 

 but red of head on crown and occiput instead of on nape, only the 

 tips of the feathers being red, forming a large patch, jnore or less 

 broken, at least anteriorly; spots on breast, etc., smaller, nearly longi- 

 tudinal, the ground color of under parts more grayish white. 



