PUCHERAN'S WOODPECKER 



orange red on hindneck; remaining upper parts 

 barred black and white, the lower rump and 

 upper tail coverts white; tail black, the middle 

 feathers spotted with white; below pale buffy 

 grayish shading to olive grayish ; flanks and under 

 tail coverts white broadly barred with black; 

 lower abdomen bright red. 



Female. Length 151 mm. (5.95 in.); tail 50 

 mm. (2.00 in.). Similar to male but with 

 crown brown and only hindneck red. 



Young. Similar to adult of same sex but 

 duller and with less red on abdomen. 



The commonest and most familiar woodpecker 

 of the Canal Zone, nesting in dead trees often 

 near houses. It makes its presence known by its 

 noisy calls which are always recognizable when 

 once heard and comprise an often repeated 

 wicka wicka resembling the call of the Northern 

 Flicker of the United States ; also a two-syllabled 

 note, and a loud trilled call. 



2. Tripsurus pucherani pucherani (Malherbe) 

 Pucheran's Woodpecker 



Melanerpes pucherani pucherani STONE, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 259. 



Male. Length 184 mm. (7.20 in.); tail 58 

 mm. (2.30 in.). Forehead light yellow, re- 

 mainder of top of head and hindneck, bright red; 

 back and shoulders black barred with white; 

 rump and upper tail coverts white, sometimes 

 sparsely barred with black; wings and tail black; 

 some of the wing coverts and quills sparsely 

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