176 LEWIS'S WOODPECKER. 



1/j ; first toe i|, its claw 3% ; second toe /j, its claw || ; third toe ^"1, 

 its claw I'V ; fourth toe ||, its claw ■^-^. 



Adult Female. Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 6. 



The Female resembles the male ; but has the tints somewhat duller, 

 and wants the red patch on the cheeks, that part being merely tinged 

 with red. An individual, marked by Dr Townsend " Female, Colum- 

 bia River, April 1, 1836," is similar to the female as above described, 

 but has the lower surface of the wings and tail, with the shafts, of a 

 much paler tint, approaching to dull yellow, which induces me to think 

 that this species does not attain its perfect colom-ing until at least the 

 second year. 



Length to end of tail 13 inches ; bill along the ridge 1^%. 



LEWIS'S WOODPECKER. 



PiCUS TOBQUATUS, WiLS. 



PLATE CCCCXVI. Male and Female. 



Here you have figures of the male and female of a beautiful and 

 singularly marked species of Woodpecker, discovered in the course of 

 the memorable journey of Clarke and Lewis to the Pacific Ocean, and 

 of which the first figure, being that of an immature male, was presented 

 by Wilson. All that is at present known of its habits is contained in 

 the following notes addressed to me by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. and 

 Dr Townsend. " About the middle of July," says the former of these 

 travellers, " we first met with this fine species in our progress westward, 

 in the central chain of the Rocky Mountains, in the Cedar and Pine 

 woods of Bear River, on the edge of Upper California. They were al- 

 ready feeding their young, and inhabited the decayed trunks of the pine 

 trees. Afterwards, at the close of August, in the plains sixty miles up 

 the Wahlamet, flocks of from twelve to twenty together were to be seen 

 shifting backwards and forwards in trees near the woods of the River, 

 playing about like so many sportive Crows, which the young so much 



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