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PILEATED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus pileatus ) 



P. niger, crista rubra, temporibus alisque maculis albis, gula 



lutescente. 

 Black Woodpecker, with a red crest, temples and wings with 



white spots; throat yellowish. 

 Picus pileatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 173. 3. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 



425. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 225. 4. Vieil. Ois. de L'Avner. Sept. 



2. 58. 



Picus virginianus pileatus. Briss. 4. 2Q. 1Q. 

 Pic noir & huppe rouge. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 48. Vieil. 



Ois. de UAmer. Sept. 2. 58. 110. 



Pic noir hupp6 de la Louisiane. Buff. PL Enl. 718. 1. 

 Pileated Woodpecker. Pen. Arc. Zool. 2. 157. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 2. 554. 3. Lath. Sup. 105. 



THIS bird is in length fifteen inches : beak two 

 inches long, and of a lead-colour; irides golden: 

 top of the head crowned with long red feathers ; 

 beneath which, over the eye, there is a streak of 

 white, and below this is a broad black one, in 

 which the eyes are placed : on each side of the 

 jaw there is a stripe of red reaching the whole 

 length of the mandible, and part of the way down 

 the neck : cheeks, throat, front, and sides of the 

 neck pale buff; having a band of black arising at 

 the corners of the mouth, and passing through the 

 middle down the sides of the neck : hind part of 

 the neck, back, and rump black: belly, sides, 

 thighs, breast, and under tail-coverts blackish : 

 wings spotted with white, and a similar coloured 



