UIRDS — PICIDAE — PICUS PUUESCliNS. 



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List of specimens. 



PICUS PUBESCEXS, L. 



Downy Woodpecker; Sapsncker. 



Picixs pubtsctns, L. Syst. Nat. I, 176G, 15. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, lc07, 65 ; pi. cxxi. — Wilso.v, Am. Orn. 1, 

 1808, 153 ; pi. ix.— Wagler, Syst. Avium, 18:27, No. 23.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 81 : V, 539 ; 

 pi. 112.— Ib. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 249 ; pi. 263. 



Picua (Dendrocopus) pubescens, Sw. F. B. A. 11, 1831, 3U7. 



Pictu (Trichopicus) pubescens, Bonap. Consp. Zyg. Aten. and Cal. 1854, 8. 



■Picus medianus, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 30*. 



Picks nifruiiona/is, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 308. (Small southern race.) 



Picus Ueoniii, J OSES, Ann. N. Y. Lye. IV, 1848,489 ; pi. xviii. (Georgia. Three toed variety. Type of Tridaclylia, Bp.) 



Sp. Ch. — A minaturc of P. tillosus. Above black, with a white band down the back. Two white stripes on the side of the 

 head ; the lower of opposite sides always separated •, the upper sometimes confluent on the nape. Two stripes of black on the 

 side of the head, the lower not runnintt into the forehead. Beneath white ; wing much spotted with white ; the larger coverts 

 with two series each ; tertiaries or inner secondaries all banded with white. Two outer tail|feathers while, with two bands of 

 black at end ; third white at tip and externally. Length about 6' inches ; wing 3J. Male with red, terminating the white 

 feathers on the nape. 



Hab. — Eastern United Slates, towards the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains. 



Third and fourth quills equal and longest, second a little shorter, and then the third. Upi^er 

 parts black, the middle of the back as far as the rump with a broad stripe of white, the feathers 

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