FAMILY PICIDAE 55 1 



anterior lores, and feathered anterior side of mandible, chin, and 

 throat black ; a white line, continuous with the white of the forehead, 

 extending down across the loral area to cover the posterior side of the 

 jaw; foreneck light yellow; narrow band across junction of lower 

 foreneck and upper breast black, occasionally with a wash of red in 

 the center; rest of under surface white with upper breast, sides, and 



Figure 72. — Acorn woodpecker, carpintero tigre, Melanerpes formicivorus 

 striatipectus. 



under tail coverts streaked narrowly with black ; edge of wing white ; 

 under wing coverts black, lined lightly with white. 



Adult female, like male, but with the center of the crown black, 

 continuous with that color on the side of the head. One specimen 

 seen had the outer pair of rectrices tipped lightly with white ; others 

 had these feathers plain black. 



Immature, with black markings of lower surface duller; red of 

 crown duller and restricted, so that it is mixed with the partly ex- 

 posed dark slate of the feather bases. 



