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SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — PICABI^ — PICIF0BME8. 



435. 



P. s. nnt'talli. (To Thos. Nuttall. Fig. 332.) Nitt all's "Woodpecker. Similar ; rather 

 larger ; more white, this prevailing on the back over the black bars ; nape chiefly white ; nasal 



tufts white; lateral tail-feathers, especially, sparsely 

 or imperfectly barred. The Californian coast race, 

 differing decidedly in some respects, and constantly ; 

 but connected with general series of ladder-backs. 

 Barring restricted to the back proper, the hind neck 

 being black, succeeded anteriorly by a white space 

 adjoining the red, wanting in scalaris, where red 

 joins black. Red chiefly confined to the occiput, 

 the rest of the crown black, spotted with white. 

 Lateral tail-feathers white, not barred throughout, 

 having but 1-3 black bars, all beyond their mid- 

 dles, all but the terminal one of these broken. 

 White po.stocular stripe running into the white 

 nuchal area, but cut off from the white of the 

 shoulders. White maxillary stripe enclosed in 

 black as in scalaris, but this black ccmtinuous with 

 the cervical black patch, which is not the case in 



436. 



437. 



Nuttall's Woodpecker, nat. size. 



Fio. 

 (From Elliot.) 



scalaris. No smoky-brown state of the under parts observed. 



P. s. lucasa/nus. ((Jf Cape St. Lucas.) St. Lucas Woodpecker. A local race of scalaris. 

 Smoky-brown nasal tufts and style of head and back as in that species. Lateral tail-feathers 

 imperfectly barred and only toward end, as in nuttalU. Red of crown of $ broken up anteriorly. 

 Peculiar in disproportionate size of bill and feet cliill 1.10 ; tarsus 0.75. 



P. strick'landi. (To H. E. Strickland.) Strickland's Woodpecker. Entirely different 

 from any of the foregoing or following species. Adult $ : Upper parts dark brown, immacu- 

 late ; top of head, rump, and 4 middle tail-feathers black ; the occiput with a scarlet band. 

 Sides of head with white post-ocular and maxillary bands, expanded and more or less confluent 

 on sides of neck. Wing-quills like the back, their outer webs with a few small white spots, 

 the inner webs with more numerous larger white spots or broken bars. Outermost tail-feathers 

 evenly barred throughout with blackish-brown and white ; intermediate feathers partly so 

 fcanded, but mostly blackish. Entire under parts sordid whitish, thickly spotted with dusky ; 

 the markings few and somewhat linear on the throat, crowded and cordate on the breast, widen- 

 ing and tending to become 

 bars on the lower belly, 

 flanks, and crissum. BUI 

 and feet blackish-plumbe- 

 ous. Size of a small P. 

 villosus; wing 4.50; tail 

 8.25; bill 1.12; tarsus 

 0.75 ; middle toe and claw 

 0.90. 9 similar: no red 

 on nape; color of upper 

 parts duller, and some 

 feathers of middle of back 

 barred with white. Young: 



Like adults of the respec- ^Ijjp^ 



tive sex; but top of head 

 brown like back, and spot- F'G. 333. — Hairy Woodpecker, nat. size. (Adnat. del. E. 0.) 



ted with red. A Mexican species, lately ascertained to be of common occurrence in Arizona' 



