PICID.K-TIIE WnoIil'HCKKns. 



G5G 



Cftiturus rurotiitus 



iiinor :,fh; tlic oulcr \vcl> willi a sli'ijic of while nloiif,' llii' iiiiildlc. Lcnj.'lli, lt.7"'; wiii^', 

 iilMHit o.OO. Fciimlc Willi lln' iTowii ashy ; rorcht'iiil piiU' ifd; iiiiiiu l)iij,'hl iimI. 



IIaii. North Aiiiciica, _ 



friiiii Atlantic coasit to tin.' 

 caslcni slopi' of till' Hocky 

 Moiiiilains. Iiocalilii's : 



Texas (DiiKSiiKU, Iliis, 1805, 

 •t<!!<. rosiilciil). 



Sjiociiuoiifl vary con- 

 aidorably in size (witli 

 latitude), ami in tiie 

 tiiioe of veddiHJi on 

 cliin, breast, etc, Tiic 

 widtli of the dorsal 

 hands differs in dilf(!r- 

 ent s])eeiniens. The 

 runii) is haniled ; uj)- 

 per tail-coverts are j,'cnerally innnacidate, Imt are Hnnietiiiics dashed with 

 black. Specimens from the ^Iississip])i Valley are j^enerally more hrit^ditly 



colored tlian those from the Atlantic 

 States, tiie lower parts more str(ino;ly 

 tin^'cd with red. Florida exani]iU's are 

 siiialliM'tlian niu'thern ones, the black bars 

 broader, tlie lower parts deeper ashy and 

 strongly tinned with red, but of a more 

 ])ur|ilish shade than in western ernes. 



llMdTS. The IJed-ludlied Wood- 

 pecker is distriljuted throno;hont North 

 America, from the Atlantic Coast to 

 the eastern slope of tlie Koeky Moun- 

 tains. Tt is, however, much more abiui- 

 dant in the more southern and western 

 portions. In the collections of the 

 Smithsonian Institution none are re- 

 corded from farther north than Tennsyl- 

 vania on Mie east and Nebraska Territory on the west, while otliers M'ere 

 obtained as far south as I'"lorida. Xor am I aware thiit it is found, except 

 very rarely, north of IVinisylvania on the Atlantic coast. I have never met 

 with it in Eastern Massachusetts, although ^Ir. Audubon sjieaks of it as lireed- 

 ing from Mfiryland to Nova Scotia. 1 )r. Woodhouse ionnd it conunejii in the 

 Indian Territory and in Texas. AVilson speaks of having fonnd it abundant 

 in Upper Canada, and in the northern parts of tlie State of New York. He 

 also refers to its inhaliiting the whole Atlantic States as far as Uctorgia and 

 the southern extremity of Floritla. Its al)sence in Eastern ^Massachusetts 

 was noticed by Mr. Nuttall. It is not given by Thompson or Paine as 



Ctittltnis lurtilnm^. 



