596 



CLIMBING BIRDS — SCANSORES. 



Inner posterior very short ; jiut half the uiilcr anterior ; about lialf tlie inner anterior one. 

 Tail long, graduated ; the long leathers much ineurved at the tip. Wing longer than the 

 tail, reaehing to the middle of the exposed suriiiee of tail ; eiinsideral)ly graduated, though 

 pointed ; the tuurth and fifth quills longest. 



Color, uniturni blaek, with white patehes on the side of the head. Head with pointed 

 crest. 



Hylotomus pileatus, Linx^eus. 

 THE BLACK WOODCOCK ; THE LOG-COCK. 



Picus pileatus, Linn^us, Syst. Nat. I. 1766, 17.3. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II. 1807, 58 ; 

 pi. c.\. — Wilson, Am. Orn. IV. 1811, 27 ; pi. xxix. f. 2. — Wa ,lek, Syst. Av. 1827, 

 No. 2. — AuDUBOS, Orn. Biog. II. 1834, 74; V. 5.33 ; pi. 111. In. Birds Amer. IV. 

 1842, 266; pi. 257. — Picus (Dnjotomus) pileatus, SwAixsox, Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 

 1831, 30i. — H(/l(iJomus pileatus, Baikd, P. E. Eep. IX. Birds, 107. — Cooper and 

 SucKLEY, XII. iii. Zoul. of W. T. 161. 



Sp. Cn.\i!. Fourth and fifth quills equal and longest ; third intermediate between sixth 

 and seventh. Bill blue-baek. General eolor of l^ody, wings, and tail dull greenisli-blaek. 

 A narrow white streak from just above the eye to the oeeiput ; a wider one from the nos- 

 tril feathers (inelusive) under the eye and along the side of the head and neck ; sides of 



the breast (.(ineealrd by the wings), axillarirs, and \nid,-r wing coverts, and concealed 

 bases of all the quills, with rhiii and beneath the bead, white, tinged with sulphur-yellow. 

 Entire erown from the base of the bill tn a well-develo])ed oc'cipital crest, as also a patch 

 on the ramus of the lower jaw, scarlet red. A fL'W faint white crescents on the sides of 

 the bodv and on the abdomen. Length, about 1« 00 ; extent. 29.00; wing. 0.50. 



