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the Rocky Mountains, is nine inches long, the wing five 

 inches ; the head, neck, sides of the breast, and body, 

 black ; a stripe behind the eye white, a narrow line on 

 the chin and throat red, tail feathers wholly black, and 

 the back scarcely spotted. 



The Brown-headed Woodpecker, S. thyroideus, Baird, 

 of Western North America, is about nine inches long, 

 the wing five inches ; the head dark ashy-brown, the 

 rest of the body encircled by transverse bands of black 

 and brownish white, excepting a large, round black patch 

 upon the breast ; and, as in the preceding members of .the 

 genus, the central line beneath is yellow. 



The Genus Hylotomus is represented by the Black 

 Woodcock, H. pileatus, Baird, of North America gen- 

 erally, which is about eighteen inches long, the wing 

 nine and a half inches ; the general color dull greenish- 

 black, a narrow white streak above the eye, a wider one 

 under the eye and along the sides of the head and neck ; 

 the sides of the breast, under wing goverts, chin, and 

 beneath the head, white tinged with yellow ; and the 

 entire crown, from the base of the bill to a well-developed 

 occipital crest, scarlet. This bird is very shy, and, when 

 followed by the hunter, goes rapidly from one tree to 

 another, alighting upon the tallest, and generally keeping 

 on the side farthest from the pursuer. Its notes are very 

 loud and clear. 



The Genus Centurus comprises Woodpeckers which are 

 banded above transversely with black and white, the rump 

 white, the head and under parts brown, and the belly with 

 a red or yellow tinge. 



The Red-bellied Woodpecker, C. carolinus, Bonap., of 

 North America east of the Rocky Mountains, is nine and 

 three fourths inches long, the wing five inches, and, in 

 addition to the characteristics named above, it has the 

 crown and nape red, forehead white tinged with red, and 

 the middle of the belly red. 



