384 CLIMBING BIRDS — SCANSOllES. 



the eulmen. so as to bring the Uirge rather linear nostrils elose to the edge of the eonimis- 

 sure. The gonys very long, equal to the distance from the nostrils to the tip of the bill. 

 Feet with only three toes ; the outer lateral a little longer than the inner, but slightly ex- 



P. hirsuftl.^. 



ceedcd by the hind toe, whieh is aljout equal to the tarsus. Wings very long, reaehing 

 be}-ond the middle of the tail ; fourth anil lifth quills longest. Color blaiJc with a broad 

 patch of yellow on the crown ; body transversely banded on the sides. Quills with round 

 spots. 



Three species iulialut North America, and others are found on the OLl 

 Continent. F. dorsalis, Baird, with a white stripe down the middle of Lack, 

 may perliaps stray as far to the west as the Northern Sierra Nevada or the 

 Cascade Mountains, as it inhabits the Rocky ilountains at least as far south 

 as lat. 40°. 



Picoides arcticus, .Swalnsdx. 



THE ARCTIC THEEE-TOED WOODPECKER. 



Picm (Apternns) arrticus, Swainson, Fauna Bur. Am. II. ISai, Z\Z. — Aplcrms nrclicus, 



BoxAi'ARTE, List, 1838. Ib. Cons]). 1850, 1.39. — Newberry, Zool. Cul. and Or. 



Route, 91 ; Rep. P. R. Surv. VI. IS^7. — Piciis arcticus, Audubon, Syn. 1839, 182. 



Ib. Birds Amcr. IV. 1842, 266; pi. 268. — Nuttali,, Man. L 2a ed. 1840, 691. 



Picoides arcticus, Gray, Baikd, P. R. Rc]i. Birds, IX. 98. 

 Piciis tridacti/lics. Bosai-akte, Am. Orn. II. 1828, 14; pi. xiv. f. 2. — Audubon, Orn. Biof;. 



n. 18.34, 198; pi. 132. 



Sp. Cii.\u. Above entirely imiform glossy liluish-black ; a squ.ire patch on the middle 

 of the crown, saffron yellow, and a few white spots on the outer edges of both webs of the 

 prim.ary and secondary (juills. Beneath white, on the sides of the breast longitudinally 

 striped, and on the sides of the belly, ilaiiks, and tibial region banded transversely with 



