Si6 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. 



Genus PHLCEOTOMUS Cabanis. . 



194. Phloeotomus pileatus albieticola (Bangs). 

 Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 



Distr. : Heavily wooded regions of North America, from the Alle- 

 ghanies and middle United States northward. 



Adult male: General color, dull black; top of head and a cheek- 

 patch beginning at base of lower mandible, bright scarlet; throat, a 



Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 



stripe behind the eye, and a larger one extending from the nostril along 

 side of head and neck, and breast, white; terminal half of primaries, 

 brownish black, the basal half, white (at times tinged with pale yel- 

 low), forming a conspicuous white wing patch when flying; tail, 

 black; bill, brownish black, paler below. 



Adult female: Similar, but only back of head scarlet, the front 

 crown, brownish black, and without scarlet red patch at base of under 

 mandible. 



Length, about 17.50; wing, about g; tail, 6.60; bill, 1.90. 



This species is resident and not uncommon in southern Illinois, and 

 occurs sparingly in wooded districts of northern Illinois and Wisconsin. 

 Mr. E. W. Nelson gives it in his Birds of Northeastern Illinois as "A 

 rare winter visitant. Two specimens were taken near Chicago during 

 the winter of 1873." Mr. Frank M. Woodruff writes: "Mr. George 



