CANADIAN WOODPECKER. 189 



from representing the female, which however differs from the male in 

 little more than in wanting the red patch on each side of the occiput. 



Picus CANADENSIS, Giml. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 437, — Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 230. 

 Picus (Dendkocopus) villosus. Hairy Woodpeckee, Swains, and Richards. 



Fauna Bor.-Amer. vol. iL p. 305. 



Adult Male. Plate CCCCXVII. Fig. 7. 



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

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

 ble with the dorsal line straight, the ridge very narrow, the sides slop- 

 ing 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 

 and grooved for some way beyond the angle, convex toward the edges, 

 which are sharp and inflected, the tip narrow. 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, and with a series of large 

 scales behind ; toes four, first small, but stout ; fourth considerably 

 longer than the third ; second and third united at the base ; all scutel- 

 late above- Claws large, much curved, compressed, laterally grooved, 

 very acute. 



Plumage very soft, full, and blended. A large tuft of recurved 

 stifi&sh feathers on each side of the base of the upper mandible, con- 

 cealing the nostrils ; the feathers in the angle of the lower mandible 

 also stiffish, and directed forwards. Wings rather long ; the first quill 

 very small, being only an inch and a twelfth long, the second two inches 

 longer, and seven- twelfths shorter than the third, which is two-twelfths 

 shorter than the fourth, this being the longest, but exceeding the fifth 

 only by one-twelfth ; secondaries broad and rounded. Tail of mode- 

 rate length, cuneate, of twelve feathers, of which the lateral, which 

 are rounded and unworn, are only one inch and two-twelfths long, the 

 next, also unworn, are eleven-twelfths of an inch shorter than the mid- 

 dle which are pointed, sometimes without having the very strong shafts 

 worn, but also sometimes having them broken off at the end ; all the 

 rest are more or less pointed. 



