Yellow-liellietl Woodpecker. 



PICIDTE, WOODPECKERS. — -GEN. 133. 195 



woorlpeckers, the agriculturist will do well to discriminate between the somewhat 

 injurious and the highly benetieial species. 



5 ^j '■■ Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. $ with the crown crimson, Ijorderecl all 

 around with black; chin, throat and breast black, enclosing a large crimson 

 patch on the former (in the $ ; in the ? this patch white) ; sides of head 

 with a white line starting fr(jni the 

 nasal feathers and dividing the 

 black of the throat from a trans- 

 ocular black stripe, this separated 

 from the black of the crown by a 

 white postocular stripe ; all these 

 stripes frequently yellowish; 

 under parts dingy yellow, brown- 

 ish and with sagittate dusky marks 

 on the sides ; back variegated with 

 black and yellowish-brown ; wings 

 black with a large oblique white 

 bar on the coverts, the quills with 

 numerous paired white spots fin 

 the edge of both webs; tail black, most of the feathers white-edged, the 

 inner webs of the middle pair, and the upper coverts, mostly white. Young 

 birds lack the definite black areas of the head and breast, and the crimson 

 throat-patch, these parts being mottled gray ; but in any plumage the bird 

 is recognized by its yellowness, different from what is seen in any other 

 Eastern species, and the broad white wing-bar, to say nothing of the generic 

 characters. About 8J ; wing 4J-5 ; tail 3J. Eastern North America, 

 al)undant. Wils., i, 147, pi. 9, f. 2 ; Nutt., i, 574; Aud., iv, 263, pi. 

 267; Bd., 103 vaiuus. 



CC Var. NUCHALis. With an additional baud of scarlet on the nape, and the throat- 

 patch more extensive ; it is often seen in the ? . Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, 

 but apparentljf not exclusively' western ; I am informed that birds of this descrip- 

 tion are found in New England. Bd., 103, 897 ; Coop., 390. 

 -9 , -^ Red-hreasted, Woodpecker. Exactly like the last, but the whole head, 

 neck and breast carmine red, in both sexes ; gray in the young. Size of 

 the last, with which it is said to intergrade, and of which it is apparently 

 only a variety. Pacific Coast, U. S. Aud., iv, 261, pi. 266; Bd., 104; 



Coop., 392 ruber. 



Q ti ' Brown-lieaded Woodpecker. General plumage closely banded with black 

 and grayish-white ; rump white ; middle of belly yellow, of breast black ; 

 whole head nearly uniform brown ; quills sprinkled with white along the 

 edges ; tail black with the middle feathers white-barred ; 9-9 J ; wing 5 or 

 more; tail 4 or less. Wooded mountainous regions, Pacific slojie. Cass., 

 111. 200, pi. 32; Bd., 106; Elliot, pi. 25; Coop., 393. . thyroideus. 

 '2 ^ ■ Williamson's Woodpecker. Glossy black ; sides and crissum mixed black 

 and white ; belly yellow ; rump white ; tail black, unmarked ; wings black, 



