BIRDS — PICIDAE — PICUS PUBESCENS. 



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List of specimens. 



PIOUS PUBESCENS, L. 



Downy Woodpecker; Sapsucker. 



Picvis ptibescens, L. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 15. — ^Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, lfc07, 65 ; pi. cxxi. — Wilson, Am. Orn. 1, 

 1808, 153 ; pi. ix.— Wagler, Syst. Avium, 1827, No. 23.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 81 : V, 539 ; 

 pi. 112.— Ib. Birds Am. IV, 1842, 249 ; pi. 263. 



Picus {Dendrocojms) puhescens, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 307. 



Picus (Tricliopicus) pubescens, Bonap, Consp> Zyg. Aten. and Cal. 1854, 8. 



> Picus medianus, Sw. P. B. A. II, 1831, 308. 



Picus meridionalis, Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 308. (Small aouthern race.) 



Picus lecontii, Jones , Ann. N. Y. Lye. IV, 1848, 489 ; pi. xviii. (Greorgia. Three toed variety. Type of Tridaclylia, Ep.) 



Sp. Ch. — A rainature of P. villosus. Above black, with a white band down the back. Two white stripes on the side of the 

 head ; the lower of opposite sides always separated ; the upper sometimes confluent on the nape. Two stripes of black on the 

 side of the head, the lower not runnini; into the forehead. Beneath white ; wing much spotted with white ; the larger coverts 

 with two series each ; tertiaries or inner secondaries all banded with white. Two outer tail Jfeathers white, with two bands of 

 black at end ; third white at tip and externally. Length about 6^ inches ; wing 3^. Male with red, terminating the white 

 feathers on the nape. 



Hab. — Eastern United States, towards the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains. 



Third and fourth quills equal and longest, second a little shorter, and then the third. Upper 

 parts black, the middle of the back as far as the rump with a broad stripe of white, the feathers 

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