SPECIES 8, PIC US Q UER UL US. 

 RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 



[Plate XV. Fig. 1.] 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 2027. 



THIS new species I first discovered in the pine woods of North 

 Carolina. The singularity of its voice, which greatly resembles 

 the chirping of young nestlings, and the red streak on the side 

 of its head, suggested the specific name I have given it. It also 

 extends through South Carolina and Georgia, at least as far as 

 the Altamaha river. Observing the first specimen I found to be 

 so slightly marked with red, I suspected it to be a young bird, 

 or imperfect in its plumage, but the great numbers I afterwards 

 shot, satisfied me that this is a peculiarity of the species. It ap- 

 peared exceedingly restless, active, and clamorous; and every 

 where I found its manners the same. 



This bird seems to be an intermediate link between the Red- 

 bellied and the Hairy Woodpecker, represented in plates VII 

 and IX of this work. It has the back of the former, and the 

 white belly and spotted neck of the latter; but wants the breadth 

 of red in both, and is less than either. A preserved specimen 

 has been deposited in the Museum of this city. 



This Woodpecker is seven inches and a half long, and thir- 

 teen broad; the upper part of the head is black; the back barred 

 with twelve white, transversely, semicircular lines, and as many 

 of black, alternately; the cheeks and sides of the neck are white; 

 whole lower parts the same; from the lower mandible, a list of 

 black passes towards the shoulder of the wing, where it is lost in 

 small black spots on each side of the breast; the wings are black, 

 spotted with white; the four middle tail feathers black, the rest 

 white spotted with black; rump black, variegated with white; 



