BIIJDS — PICIDAE MELANEEPES TOKQUATUS. 



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Specimens vary in the gloss on the black of the upper parts, which is sometimes green, 

 eometimes bluish. 



The young male is exactly like the adult ; the only evidence of immaturity being in the 

 shorter and more curved bill, as well as the smaller size. 



Specimens from New Leon are much smaller than those from California, as shown by a male, 

 (4033,) in which the wing is half an inch shorter than in California specimens. Many speci- 

 mens have a few red tipped feathers in the posterior edge of the pectoral collar, but it is not 

 found in all. Specimens from the Coppermines are about the size of Californian. 



List of specimens. 



MELANERPES TOEQUATUS, Bonap, 



Lewis's Woodpecker. 



Picus torquttlus, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 31 ; pi. xx.— Wacler, Syst. Av. 1827, No. 82.— Ann. Orn. Bio?. 



V, 1839, 176 ; pi. 416.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 280 ; pi. 272. 

 Melanerpes torquahts, Bp. Consp. 1850, 115.— Heermann. J. A. N. So. Phil. 2d ser. II, 1853, 270.— Newberry, 



Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, 90 ; in P. R. R. Surv. VI, 1857. 

 PUiis monlanus, Ord, in Guthrie's Geog. 2d Am. ed. II, 1815, 316. 

 Picus tewisii, Drafiez. (Gray.) 



Sp. Ch. — Feathers on the under parts bristle-like. Fourth quill longest ; then third and fifth. Above dark glossy green. 

 Breast, lower part of the neck and a narrow collar all round hoary grayish white. Around the base of the bill and sides ot 

 the head to behind the eyes, dark crimson. Bellv blood red, streaked finely with hoary whitish. Wings and tail entirely uniform 

 dark glossy green. Female with the markings more obscure. Length about lOJ inches ; wing 6! . 



Hab. — Western America from Black hills to Pacific. 



