HAIRY WOODPECKER, 167 



Adult Male. Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 1. 



Bill about the length of the head, straight, strong, angular, com- 

 pressed toward the tip, which is truncate and cuneate. Upper man- 

 dible with the dorsal line straight, the ridge very narrow, the sides 

 sloping and flat, the lateral angle or ridge nearer the edge, which is 

 sharp, direct, and overlapping. Lower mandible with the angle short 

 and rather wide, the dorsal line straight, the ridge narrow, the sides 

 flat at the base, convex toward the end, the edges inflected, the tip nar- 

 row. Nostrils oblong, basal, concealed by the feathers, and placed 

 near the margin. 



Head large, ovate ; neck rather short ; body full. Feet very short ; 

 tarsus short, compressed, feathered anteriorly more than one-third down, 

 scutellate in the rest of its extent, as well as behind, on the inner side ; 

 toes four ; first small, but stout ; fourth longest and directed backwards, 

 second and third united at the base ; all scutellate above. Claws large, 

 much curved, compressed, laterally grooved, very acute. 



Plumage very soft, full, and blended. A large^tuft of reversed stif- 

 fish feathers on each side of the base of the upper mandible, concealing 

 the nostrils ; the feathers in the angle of the lower mandible also stif- 

 fish, elongated, and directed forward. Wings rather long ; the first 

 quill very small, being only eleven-twelfths long, the second one inch 

 and eleven-twelfths longer, and five and a half twelfths shorter than the 

 third, which is one-twelfth shorter than the fourth, this being the long- 

 est, but scarcely exceeding the fifth ; secondaries broad and rounded. 

 Tail of moderate length, cuneate, of twelve feathers, of which the late- 

 ral, which are rounded and unworn, are only one inch long, the next, 

 also unworn, are nine-twelfths of an inch shorter than the middle, which 

 are pointed, having the shafts very strong and bristle-pointed ; all the 

 rest more or less pointed. 



Bill bluish-grey, toward the end black. Iris brown. Feet bluish- 

 grey. The upper parts are black, spotted with white, the lower brown- 

 ish-white. The tufts of bristly feathers over the nostrils, and in 

 the angle of the lower jaw, are dull yellow ; the upper part of the 

 head and the hind neck, are glossy black ; over each eye is a band of 

 white continuous with a transverse band of scarlet on the occiput, 

 usually divided into two patches by the continuation of the black of 

 the head ; a black band from the bill to the eye, continued behind it 

 over the auriculars, and joining the black of the hind neck ; beneath 



