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Kki'oim oKSrvrK Ckolooist 



!M. (iKN'is s^»llYl^\l<l^^;s Haikk. 

 ''162. (40-2). Sphyrapicus varius (Linn.). 



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. 

 Sviumvms. Yki.i.ow -isKi.i.iKO \\\)(>nj'KOKKK. Sai'sickki;. 







VoUow-bollied Sijpsuoker. 



>l!»>:il. r.ullotiu No. 7. Divi-^inn of Ornithology and Manunaloiry, Initoil St.itos DopiUtiueiit 

 . of A.srioulture. p. "28.'' 



Aiiult Male. — Orowu. forehead, ehin and tliroat. orinison; other up- 

 per partij. blaek. marked, or variegated with white or veUowi^h-wliite: 

 a line from nostril, below the eye, and one from behind the eye, run- 

 ning baekwards, white, sometinu^s tinged with yeUowish; wingts. bUiok. 

 (he feathers^ with white spots, generally in pairs; wiug eovert^, eiiiefly 

 wliite: tail with middle pair of feathers and upper eoverts mostly 



