BIRDS — ^PICIDAE ^MELANEEPES TORQUATUS. 



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Specimens vary in the gloss on the black of the upper parts, which is sometimes green, 

 sometimes bluish. 



The young male is exactly like the adult ; the only evidence of iramaturity being in the 

 shorter and more curved bill, as well as the snlaller size. 



Specimens from New Leon are much smaller than those from California, as shown by a male, 

 (4033,) in which the wing is half an inch shorter than in California specimens. Many speci- 

 mens have a few red tipiped feathers in the posterior edge of the pectoral collar, but it is not 

 foulid in all. Specimens from the Coppermines are about the size of Oalifornian. 



List of specimens. 



MELANEKPES TOEQUATUS, Bonap. 



Jjewis's Woodpecker. 



Picua torquatuB, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 31 ; pi. xx.— Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, No. 82.— Aud. Orn. Biog. 



V, 1839, 176 ; pi. 416.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 280 ; pi. 272. 

 Melanerpes torquatus, Bp. Consp. 1850, 115.— Heermann. J. A. N. Sc. Phil. 2d ser. II, 1853, 270.— Newberry, 



Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, 90 ; in P. R. R. Surv. VI, 1857. 

 Picus montanus, Ord, in Guthrie's Geog. 2d Am. ed. II, 1815, 316. 

 Picks lewisii, Urafiez. (Gray.) 



Sp. Ch. — Feathers on the under parts bristle-like. Fourth quill longest ; then third and fifth. Above dark glossy green. 

 &east, lower part of the neck and a narrow collar all round hoary grayish white. Around the base of the bill and sides of 

 ihe head to behind the eyes, dark crimson. Belly blood red, streaked finely with hoary whitish. Wings and tail entirely uniform 

 dark glossy green. Female with the markings more obscure. Length about 10 J inches ; wing 6|. 



Hab. — Western America from Black hills to Pacific. 



