CAMPEPHILUS BOLEI. 17 



Order III. PICI. 



Fam. XXIII. PICID^E, OR WOODPECKERS. 



The Woodpeckers are distributed all over the world except Australia 

 and the adjacent islands (up to Plores and Celebes) and Madagascar. 

 They are very abundant in the Neotropical and Oriental Regions, 

 where great forests predominate. From South and Central America 

 about 120 species, mostly belonging to peculiar genera, have been 

 recorded. In Argentina, as might have been expected from the vast 

 extent of the pampas districts, Woodpeckers are not so plentiful as in 

 the densely wooded countries of Amazonia and Colombia. But four 

 Woodpeckers are met with in the riverain woods of Buenos Ayres, and 

 a fifth, a curiously modified form, is peculiar to the Pampas, while 

 eight others are known with more or less certainty from the northern 

 provinces of the Republic. 



248. CAMPEPHILUS BOLEI (WagU 

 (BOIE'S WOODPECKER.) 



Campephilus boiaei, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 98 ; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 185 

 (Buenos Ayres) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1880, p. 360 (Salta) ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 617 (Catamarca, Salta) ; Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 25 (Entrerios). 



Description. Above and beneath black ; crested head and neck scarlet, ear- 

 coverts black, with a white line below ; upper back and interscapulium pale 

 tawny white ; bend of wing cinnamomeous ; inner webs of primaries pale 

 chestnut ; bill white, feet black : whole length 12-0 inches, wing 7'4, tail 4-2. 

 Female similar, but head black, except the sides of the back of the head and 

 the under portion of the crest, which are scarlet. 



Hab. Bolivia and Northern Argentina. 



Durnford found this fine Woodpecker " resident and common " to 

 the north of Buenos Ayres, and on the banks of the Parana. It is 

 likewise met with in the more northern provinces of the Republic. 

 White obtained specimens in Catamarca and Salta, and Durnford, 

 during his last expedition, in the latter locality. Mr. Barrows speaks 

 of its occurrence in Entrerios as follows : 



" A part of the last week in April 1880 was spent in a considerable 

 tract of forest bordering a stream known as the f Arroyo Gualeguaychii ' 

 at a point about twenty miles west of Concepcion. The wood borders 

 the stream to a depth of a mile or more on each side and stretches up 

 and down stream indefinitely. It had suffered comparatively little from 

 the axe of the charcoal-burner, and many birds, uot elsewhere Been, 



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