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NoKTII AMKinCAX BIRDS. 



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Hylotomus pileatus, Baird. 



BLACK WOODCOCK; LOO-COCK. 



Picks jnlcatus, Linn. Syst. N:it. I. 17«!t), 173. — Vikillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1S07, 58, 

 pi. ex. — Wilson, Am. Oni. i V, IMl, --'7, pi. xxix, f. 2. — WA(;LKn, Syst. Av. 1827, 

 No. 2. — All.. Orn. liic-,'. 11, \^:\\, 74 : V, r.3;i, pi. ixi. — Ib. Hinls Amor. IV, 1842, 

 2(k), pi. iclvii, — Maxim. ( iil>. .lorn-. VI. Ib;"*"^, 352. — Si'ndkvall, C'onsp. 8. Picus 

 (Vri/utoinus) /n/ettfus, S\v. V. Bur. Am. II, 1831, 304. Drtiotumus jiifrnfus, Bp. List, 

 1838. JJcitocofnis 2>il''(ffn'<, Honat. Coiisp. Av. 1S5(», 132. J>ri/()pic>iti jtilcufus, Bon. 

 Consp. Zy*:;. At«'n. Ital. I. — Sclatki:, C'atiil. 18«)2, 332. —Gray, C'atal. 59. Pilcakd 

 J f'(HH/ pecker. Pennant. — Latham. J/ifhfouuis piUatus, Baikd, liinls N. Am. 1858, 

 107. — L<>i:i>, Pr. H. Art. Inst. IV, 212. — Coopku & StrKLKY, 101. — Dkesser, Ibis, 

 18t)5, 4(59 (?:. Texas, but not Kio (Jramli'). — Cooper, Orn. C'al. I, 1870, 396. Ccoph- 

 locus pihafus, ("ab. Jour. 1862, 176. (Jlfffofoina, preoicujticd by Latrcilk* I I) Cab. & 

 Hein. Mus. Hi'in. IV, ii, 1863. —Samuels, 99. — Allen, B. E. Fla. 302. 



Sp. Char. Fourth and firth qiiill^ equal and lonfrcst ; third intcrniediato bet\vccn sixth 

 and seventh. Bill blue-black; more horn-color beneath. General eoior of body, ^vings, 

 _ and tail dull greenish-black. 



A nai row ^vhite streak from 

 just al)ove the eye to the oc- 

 ciput ' a ^vid»'r one from the 

 nostril feathers (inclusive), 

 under the eye and along the 

 side of the head and neck; 

 sides of the breast (concealed 

 by the wing), axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts, and con- 

 cealed biises of all the quills, 

 with cliin and beneath the 

 head, white, tinged with sul- 

 l)hur-yellow. Entire crown 

 from the base of the bill to 

 a well-developed occipital 

 crest, as also a patch on the 

 ramus of the lower jaw, 

 scarlet-red. A lew faint 

 white crescents on the sides 

 of the body and on. the ab- 

 domen. Longer primaries generally tipped with white. Length, about 18.00; wing, 9.50. 

 Female without the red on the cheek, and the anterior half of that on the top of the 

 head replaced by black. 



IIab. Wooded parts of North America from Atlantic to Pacific. Localities : E. Texas 

 (not Rio Grande!), (Dressek, Ibis, \^iV). 4G9, breeds). 



Specimens of tliis species from Fort Liard in the Xorthern Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and from Paget Sound region, are nearly four inches longer than those 

 from the Southern Atlantic States, and are scarcely exceeded in size by the 

 Ivory -billed Woodpecker. 



Specimens from the northwest coast region (Columbia liiver, British 



Hylotomus pikatus. 



