BIED^-^PICIDAE — PICU8 BAEEISII, 



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List of specimens. 



PIOUS HARKISII, Aud. 



Harris' Woodpecker. 



Picus harridi, Aud. Orn. Biag. V, 1839, 191 ; pi. 417.-18. Syn. 1839, 178.— In. Birds America, IV, 1842, &42 ; 



pi. 261, (dark-bellied variety.)— Nitttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 627. 

 9Picui inomatus, Licht. (Bon. Consp.) 

 Picus (Trichopicus) harrisli, Bp. Consp. Zyg. Aten. Ital. 1854, 8. 



Sp. Ch. — Size and appearance of P. villosus. Above black, a white stripe down the back. The only white spots on the 

 .surface of the folded wings, are seen on the outer webs of the primaries and outer secondaries, (none on tertials.) Beneath 

 whitish, with faint streaks on the side of the body . Two white and two black stripes on each side of the head ; the latter 

 confluent with the black of the neck, the upper white stripe nearly confluent. Three outer tail feathers with the exposed 

 portions white. Length, 9^ inches ; wing, 5 inches. Male, with a nuchal scarlet crest covering the white of the back of the head. 



Size and general appearance that of the hairy woodpecker, Picus villosus . 



Httb . — From the Pacific coast to the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains . 



Fourth quill longest ; fifth but little shorter. Upper parts black ; the feathers down the 

 middle of the back brownish white ; the outer web mostly black. Kump, upper tail coverts, 

 tail above, scapulars, wing coverts, and tertiary quills black, the larger coverts with only an 

 occasional white spot. The top of the head is black ; the bristly feathers at the base of the bill 

 yellowish or brownish white. A white band commencing above the eye and passing round 



