MALHERBE'S WOODPECKER 



coming paler on breast and abdomen and with 

 many curved or U-shaped black markings. 



Female. Similar to male, but cinnamon ruf- 

 ous replacing the bright red. 



Head with a pointed crest in both sexes. 



A rather inconspicuously colored forest bird, 

 distinguishable among the smaller woodpeckers 

 and woodhewers by its crest. One noted at 

 Barro Colorado, March 27, 1924. 



4. Scapaneus malherbii (Gray) 

 Malherbe's Woodpecker 



Length 333 mm. (13.10 in.); tail 112 mm. 

 (4.40 in.). 



Male. Whole head excepting chin and throat, 

 bright red with an elongated patch of white on 

 ear coverts and one of black above it a spot 

 of yellowish white near nostrils; remaining 

 upper parts and throat and chest black; a 

 large and conspicuous V-shaped white area on 

 sides of neck and upper back; remaining under 

 parts pale tawny distinctly barred with black. 



Female. Resembling male but whole fore- 

 head and middle fore part of crest, black, the 

 stripe along the neck and shoulders (part of the 

 V-shaped marking) continuing to nostril and 

 entirely covering cheeks. 



Head of both sexes with a conspicuous, some- 

 what pointed crest. 



A very large woodpecker related to the Ivory- 

 billed Woodpecker of the United States, though 

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