390 



CLIMBIXG BIRDS — SCANSORES. 



inner posterior toe very sliort ; less than the inner anterior witliont its I'law. Wings long 

 and pointed ; the fourth quill longest. Tail feathers very broad, abrujitly accuniinate, 

 with a very long linear point. 



Professor Baird includes five species in tliis new division of PicuH, all but 

 one inhaljitiuo' this coast. 



Sphyropicus nuchalis, BairDo 



THE RED-NECKED WOODPECKER. 



Piciis varius, Heermann, P. R. Rep. X. vi. 58 (not of Linnanis). — Sj)hi/rnj)!ciis i-ariii><, var. 



tiiichaUs, Baird, 1*. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 10.3. 

 Splii/riiiikiis >nii:/iulis, Baird, P. Iv. Rep. IX. Birds, 921. In. Birds of N. Amor. ])1. xxxv. 



Sp. Ch.\R. General color above black, variegated with white, the back and rump 

 brownish-white, spotted with black. Crown scarlet, boi-dered behind by a black occipital 

 band, and beldnd this a scarlet nuchal band or crescent curving forward to the eye. A 



5- 7iuchalis. 



triangular liroad jiateli of scarlet on the chin and front of throat. A stripe from above 

 the eye, and anothi-r from tlie bristles of the l)ill passing lielow the eye, and into the fair- 

 est yellowish of the belly, white. Between the lower stripe and the red of chin, a black 



