44. DRroTOJius. 515 



Keij to the Species. 



A. Larger : leiig-th 15'15 to 19 inches; -win? 



8'9 to 10 ; geueval colour less black ; witH 

 a greater amouut of white ou the bases of the 

 qiiiUs. 

 «'. Chin and throat uniform white. 



a". Entire top of the head, the crest, and 



malar stripe crimson pileatus S ad., p. olB. 



b". Hinder part of the crown and the crest 



(onlj') red ; the forehead and fore part of 



the crown, also the mahxr region, slaty 



black jnleatus ? ad., p. ol6. 



b'. Chin and throat with dusky striations .... pileatus d ]\ix.,-^.51Q. 



B. Conspicuously smaller and of a deeper black ; 



with less white on the bases of the quills . . schuhi, p. .517. 



1. Dryotomus pileatus. 



The larger red-crested Woodpecker, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol, i. 



p. 17, pi. 17 (1731). 

 Le Pic noir hupe de Virginie, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 29 (1760). 

 Picus pileatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 173 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. 



p. 42-5 (1788) ; Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 225 (1790) ; Vieill. Ois. 



Ainer. Sept. ii. p. oS, pi. ex. (1807) ; TVils. Amer. Orn. iv. p. 27, 



... p. 



(1823) ; Valetic. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 177 (1826) ; Bp. Si/n. B. U. 



S. p. 44, no. 38 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 2 (1827) ; Brap. 



Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p.' 500 (1828); Less. Traite, i. p. 229 



(1831) ; Jard. ed. JVils. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 19, pi. xxix. fig. 2 (1832) ; 



Nutt. Man. Orn. i. p. 567 (1832) ; Aud. Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 74. 



pi cxi. figs. Id', 2 5, 3-4 cJjuv. (1834), v. p. 533 (1839); id. B. 



Amer. 8vo, iv. p. 226, pi. cclvii. J,? ad., d c? juv. (1839); id. 



Sijn. B. N. Amer. p. 176 (1839) ; Peab. Bep. Nat. Hist. Mass., 



Aves, 1839, p. 334 ; id. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1841, p. 170; De 



Eaij, Nat. Hist. N. York, Ares, p. 184, pi. xviii. fig. 39, cJ (1844); 



Simdev. Cunsp. Av. Picin. p. 8 (1866). 

 Dryocopus pileatus, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 326 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 436 



(1845) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 132 (1850) ; Licht. Notnencl. Av. 



p. 75 (1854); Barry, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1854, p. 8; 



Bridges, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 2 ; Sclat. Cat. Ainer. B. p. 332, no. 1981 



(1862); Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mns. p. 59 (1868); id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 188, no. 8635 (1870) ; Bidgw. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. 



York, 1874, p. 377. 

 Drvotomus pileatus, Swaitis. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, ii. p. xxvi 



introd. and p. 304 (1831); id. Classif. B. ii. p. .308 (1837); Bp. 



Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Ainer. p. 39, no. 252 (1838). 

 Campephilus pileatus, Beichent). Scans. Picina, p. 391, no. 900, 



pL dcxlvii. tigs. 4317-18, S 2 (1854). 

 Dryopicus pileatus, Bp. Notes Orn. Collect. DeUittr. p. 85 (1854) ; 



Malh. Picida, i. p. 34, pi. xi. figs. 5cf , 6$ , ad. (18G1). 

 Driopicus pileatus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 8, no. 21 (1854). 

 Hylatomus pileatus, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 107 (1858) ; VerriU, 



'Proc. Essex List. 1862, p. 144 ; Blakist. Tbis, 1862, p. 3 ; Cav.-Tayl. 



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