PILEATED WOODPECKER. ^ 16^ 



Canada is deftitute of thefe birds. The Indians of that feverc 

 climate purchafe the bills from the favages of the more fouthern 

 parts, at the rate of two or three Buck fkins apiece, in order to form 

 the coronets * of their fachems and warriors. Thefe coronets were 

 made with feveral materials. Gay plumes formed the rays ; the 

 beaks of birds, claws of rare animals, and the little horns of their 

 Roes, were the other ornaments. They were never worn but on high 

 folemnities ; either when a warrior fung the fong of war, or was fet- 

 ting forward on his march to meet the enemy. He went forth like 

 a Spartan hero, dancing, and crowned f. 



Larger Red-crefted Woodpecker, Catejhy,'\. 17. ir^^ Pileat£»» 



Le Pic noir hupe de Virginie, Brijfon, iv. 29. 

 Picus Pileatus, Lin. Syft. 173. — Latham, 1. 554. 



Le Pic noir a huppe rouge, De Bufon, vii. 48. — PI. Enl, 718.— Lev. Mus.— • 

 Bl. Mus. 



\SJ With a bill two inches long, of a dufky color on the upper, 

 and whitifh on the lower mandible : irides of a gold-color : 

 a tuft of light brown feathers reflecSted over the noftrils : the crown 

 adorned with a rich fcarlet creft, bounded by a narrow bufF-colored 

 line ; beneath that is a broad band of black, reaching from the eyes 

 to the hind part of the head -, under this is another line of buff- 

 color, commencing at the bill, and dropping down on each fide of 

 the neck to the pinions of the wings : from the lower mandible a 

 line of fcarlet extends along the lower part of the cheeks : chin and 

 throat white : fore and hind part of the neck, back, breaft, belly, 

 and tail, black : the wings black, marked with a double line of 

 white: legs dufky. Length eighteen inches. WeIght nine ounces. 



Inhabits the forefts oiPenJylvania and New York. When the m.aize Place. 



begins to ripen, this and the other kinds make great havock, by 



Catijhy. t Lafitau M<eurs de Sawvage, ii. 60. 



fettling 



