PICID^ — THE WOODPECItERS — PICUS. 



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Ficus Harrisii, Audubon. 



HAKEIS'S WOODPECKER. 



Pints Ilan-isii, AuDTBoy, Orn. Bidg. V. 18.39, 191; pi. 417. Ib. Sjn. 1839,178. Ib. 

 BinU Amcr. II. 1842, 242 ; pi. 2G1 (dui-U-bcUiccl variety). — Nutt.^ll, JIan. I. 2il ed. 

 1840, 627. — Baikd, 1'. H. Kcp. IX. Birds, 87. — Kennerly, X. iv. 21. — IIeer-M.vx.v, 

 X. vi. .57. — Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 159. 



rirus hijtoscopus, Cau.\nis and Heine. 



Sp. Char. Abovo lilack, ,n wliik' Ptripe down i\w bark. The only white spots on the 

 surface of the folded wings are seen on the outer web.s of the jiriniaries and outer seeon- 



Male. 



daries (none on tertials). Reneath wliilish, with faint streaks on the side of the body. 

 Two white and twn blacdc stripes on each sidi' of the head; the latter continent 

 with the blaek of the neek, the upper while strijie nearly eonduent. Three outer tail 



Female. 



feathers with the exposed portions white. Length, 9.7.5 ; extent, 16.00 to 17.00; wing, 

 5.7.5. 



