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CLniBlXG BIKDS — SCANSORES. 



Melanerpes erythrocephalus, Swainson. 



THE KED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



Picus eri/throcephaliiSy Linn^us, Syst. Nat. I. 1766, 174 — Vieillot, Ois.Am.Sept.il. 

 1807, 60; pi. cxii., cxiii. — Wilson, Am. Orn. I. 1810,142; pi. jx. f. 1. — Waglek, 

 Syst. Av. 1827, No. 14. In. Isis, 1829, 518 (young), —Audubon, Orn. Biog- I. 18.32, 

 141 : V. 536 ; pi. 27. Ib. Birds Amur. IV. 1842, 274 ; pi. 271. — Max. Cab. Jour. VI. 

 1858, 419. (Upper Missouri) — Sundevall, Consp. 50. — Melanerpes erythrocephalus, 

 SwAiNSON, Fauna Bor. Araer. II. 1831, 316. — Bonaparte, List, 1838. Ib. Con- 

 spectus, 1850, 115. — Gambel, J. Ac. Nat. Sc. Ph. 2d Series, I. 1847, 55. — Baikd, 

 Birds N. Amer. 1858. — Dressek, Ibis, 1865, 469. (Resident from Nueces to Brazos, 

 Texas.) 



Picus obscuriis, Gmelin, I. 1788, 429 (young). 



Red-headed woodpecker. Pennant, Kalm, Latham. 



Wldte-rumped woodpecker, L.\TH.YM. 



Sp. Char. Head aud neck all round crimson red, margined by a narrow crescent of 

 black on the upper part of the breast. Back, primary quills, and tail, bluish-black. Un- 

 der parts generally, a broad band across the middle of the wing (exposed portion of sec- 



ondaries), and the rump, white. The female is not cHH'crrnt. Length, about 9.75 ; wing, 

 5.50. 



Hab. North America, friim the Atlantic Coast to the eastern slope of the Rocky ]\Ioun- 

 tains. (Coast of California, Gamlx'l.) 



The ci'iiiison feathev.s on tlie head and neck all rnund have the .same 

 bristly te.xtiire as described tinder M. lorrjnatus. The red descends much 

 lower lielow than above ; its posterior outline well defined and semicircular. 

 Tlie white on the wing involves the whole of the secondaries, except the 



