192 HARRIS'S WOODPECKER. 



pendently of his claim to scientific recognition as the friend and sup- 

 porter of one who has devoted his life to the study of birds, he merits 

 this tribute as an ardent and successful cultivator of ornithology, and 

 an admirer of the vporks of Him vphose good providence gave me so 

 noble-hearted a friend. 



Picus Hareisii. 



Adult Male. Plate CCCCXVII. Fig. 8. 



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

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

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

 sloping and concave to the lateral angle, which is nearer the edge, the 

 intervening space nearly erect, the edges sharp, direct, and overlapping'. 

 Lower mandible with the angle short and of moderate width, the dor- 

 sal line straight, the ridge narrow, the sides convex at the base, sloping 

 outwards and nearly flat, with a faint ridge, above which they are con- 

 vex, the edges sharp, the tip truncate. Nostrils oblong, basal, con- 

 cealed 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 

 doAvn, scutellate in the rest of its extent, as well as internally behind ; 

 toes four ; first small, fourth longest and directed backwards, second 

 and third imited at the base, the latter not much longer ; all scutellate 

 above. Claws large, much curved, compressed, laterally grooved, very 

 acute. 



Plumage very soft, full, and blended. A tuft of recmwed stifiish 

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

 nostrils. Wings rather long ; the first quill very small, being only an 

 inch and two-twelfths in length, and two inches and a twelfth shorter 

 than the second, which is eight-twelfths shorter than the third, the 

 fourth two-twelfths longer than the latter, but scarcely exceeding the 

 fifth ; secondaries broadly rounded, the outer slightly emarginate. 

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

 ter, which is rounded and unworn, is only ten-twelfths long, the next, 

 also rounded, an inch and a twelfth shorter than the middle, of which 

 the shaft terminates so as to leave the tip slit. 



Bill bluish-grey, as are the feet ; the claws brown. The tufts at the 



