348 MISSOURI RED-MOUSTACHED WOODPECKER. 



Abundant throughout the country bordering the Upper Missouri. 



In the male, the bill is cinnamon colour, darker towards the extremities, 

 the lower mandible lighter. A medial line and a collar passing back of 

 the head and running behind the cheeks, light bluish-grey; a line over the 

 eyes, another running from the lower mandible and the throat, white. 

 Cheeks, rest of the head, and upper parts of the back, dull yellowish-brown 

 streaked with brownish-black. Rump greyish-brown without streaks; two 

 bands of pale yellowish on the wings. The second primary longest. Wings 

 brownish, edged with whitish or pale dull yellow. Tail dull brown, the 

 feathers edged with paler. Sides dull yellowish-brown, the middle of the 

 lower parts much lighter. A small streak of blackish runs from the lower 

 corner of the inferior mandible, legs and feet cinnamon colour. 



From point of bill to end of tail 5 T V inches; alar extent S T V; wing from 

 flexure 2 T V; tail 2f ; tarsus nearly -§. Eye brown. 



FAMILY XXVI.*— PICINJE. WOODPECKERS. 

 Genus I.f— PICUS, Linn. WOODPECKER. 



MISSOURI RED-MOUSTACHED WOODPECKER. 



Picus Atresii, Jiud. 



PLATE CCCCLXLIV.— Male. 



This handsome new species was first discovered in the woody borders along 

 the shores of the Upper Missouri, near Fort Union, and both my friends 

 Harris and Bell procured several specimens, including an adult pair. Mr. 

 Bell also discovered its nest-hole, and on having it cut down, we found six 

 young birds of this species already fledged, and having the red moustache of 

 the old male. 



Although this bird is considerably larger than the Picus auratus, so 

 common in our Eastern States, its flight and general habits are much the 



* See vol. iv. p. 211. . t Ibid. p. 212. 



