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Key to the Species. 



A. With more or less red in the plumaore. 

 a'. With red on the head, but none on the 

 neck (except upon the throat) and never 

 any on the chest or breast, 

 a". Nuchal band white, and the two stripes 

 across the face also white, never tinged 

 with red. 



a". Chin and throat red varius S ad., p. 189. 



b'". Chin and throat white varius $ ad., p. 190. 



h". Nuchal band red; the feathers com- 

 prising the two white stripes across 

 the face generally having some of their 

 tips red. 



c'". Chin and throat entirely red nuchalis cJ ad., p. 193. 



d'". Chin and throat white, considerably 



varied with red nuchalis $ ad., p. 193. 



h'. Head and neck, chest, and more or less of 

 the breast red. 

 c". Breast entirely washed with red .... ruber S ad., p. 194. 



d'. With less red on the breast ruber 2 ad., p. 195. 



c'. Head, neck, and chest blue- black, like 



the back ; gular .spot red tkyroideus S ad., p. 190. 



B. With no red in the plumage. 



d'. Head, neck, and chest black, like the back ; _ [p. 197. 



gular spot white tkyroideus S imm., 



e' . Head, neck, and chest brown, more or less 



varied with black. [p. 190. 



e" . Wing-coverts black, with a conspicuous ]rarius S 2 nestlings, 



white patch i nuchalis 6 $ nestling.s, 



/". Wing-coverts barred like the back, [p. 193. 



without any white patch. 

 e". With very large spot or patch of 



black on the chest thyroideus 2 ad., p. 197. 



/'". Chest entirely barred like the back, 



without any black central spot. . . . thyroide%ts]vL\.,^. 197. 



1, Sphyropicus varius. 



The Yellow belly'd Woodpecker, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol, i. p. 21, 



pi. xxi., d" ad. (1731). 

 Pic varie de la Caroline, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 62 (1760) ; Daubent. PI. 



Enl. 785, (5 ad. 

 Picus varius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 176 (1766) ; Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. 

 p. 275 (178-5) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 438 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 i. p. 232 (1790) ; Barton, N. Hist. Penn. p. 8 (1799) ; Vieill. Ois. 

 Amer. Sept. ii. p. 63, pis. cxviii. S , cxix. juv. (1807) ; Wils. Amer. 

 Orn. i. p. 147, pi. ix. lig. 2, c? ad. (1808); Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat. xxvi. p. 80 (1818) ; id. ^ Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1311 (1823) ; 

 Bp. Syn. Bds. U. S. p. 45 (1826) ; Sioains. Phil. May. 1827, p. 439 ; 



Wayl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 16 (1827) ; id. Isis, 1829, p. 509 ; Jard. ed. 



Wils. Amer. Orn. i. p. 152, pi. ix. lig. 2, (S ad., iii. p. 331, pi. viii. 

 figs. 1 imm., 2 2 ad. (1832); Nutt. Man. Orn. 1832, p. 674; 

 Jiatnon de la Sat/ra, Hisf. Fis. i^r. Cnba, ii. p. 108 (1838) ; Bp. 



Comp. List B. Bur. ^- N. Atner. p. 39 (1838) ; Aud. Orn. Bioyr. 



