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NORTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



Hylotomus pileatus, Baird. 



BLACK WOODCOCK; LOG-COCK. 



Picus pileatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 1766, 173. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 58, 

 pi. ex. —Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 27, pi. xxix, f. 2. — Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, 

 No. 2. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 74 ; V, 533, pi. cxi. — Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 

 266, pi. cclvii. — Maxim. Cab. Jour. VI. 1858, 352. — Sundevall, Consp. 8. Picus 

 (Dryotomus) pileatus, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 304. Drijotomus pileatus, Bp. List, 

 1838. Dryocopus pileatus, Bonap. Cousp. Av. 1850, 132. Dryopicus pileatus, Bon. 

 Consp. Zyg. Aten. Ital. I. — Sclater, Catal. 1862, 332. —Gray, Catal. 59. Pileated 

 Woodpecker, Pennant. — Latham. Hylotomus pileatus, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 

 107. — Lord, Pr. E. Art. Inst. IV, 212. — Cooper & Suckley, 161. — Dresser, Ibis, 

 1865, 469 (E. Texas, but not Rio Grande). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 396. Ccoj}h- 

 loeus pileatus, Cab. Jour. 1862, 176. {Hylotoma, preoccupied by Latreille ! ! ) Cab. & 

 Hein. Mus. Hein. IV, ii, 1863. —Samuels, 99. —Allen, B. E. Fla. 302. 



Sp. Char. Fourth and fifth quills equal and longest ; third intermediate between sixth 

 and seventh. Bill blue-black; more horn-color beneath. General color of body, wings, 



and tail dull greenish-black. 

 A narrow white streak from 

 just above the eye to the oc- 

 ciput ; a wider one from the 

 nostril feathers (inclusive), 

 under the eye and along the 

 side of the head and neck ; 

 sides of the breast (concealed 

 by the wing), axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts, and con- 

 cealed bases of all the quills, 

 with chin and beneath the 

 head, white, tinged with sul- 

 phur-yellow. Entire crown 

 fi'om the base of the bill to 

 a well-developed occipital 

 crest, as also a patch on the 

 ramus of the lower jaw, 

 scarlet-red, A few faint 

 white crescents on the sides 

 of the body and on the ab- 

 domen. Longer primaries generally tipped with white. Length, about 18.00 ; wing, 9.50. 

 Female without the red on the cheek, and the anterior half of that on the top of the 

 head replaced by black. 



Hab. Wooded parts of North America from Atlantic to Pacific. 

 (not Rio Grande!), (Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 469, breeds). 



Hylotomus pileatus. 



Localities : E. Texas 



Specimens of this species from Fort Liard in the Northern Eocky Moun- 

 tains, and from Puget Sound region, are nearly four inches longer than those 

 from the Southern Atlantic States, and are scarcely exceeded in size by the 

 Ivory-hilled Woodpecker. 



Specimens from the northwest coast region (Columbia Eiver, British 



