382 WOODPECKER. 



eye, white, growing much broader behind the eye, and a little way 

 on the neck ; on each side of the nape, close above the white, a small 

 crimson streak ; back and scapulars black and white alternate, in 

 bands, 18 or 20 of each ; lesser wing coverts black ; each of the 

 others marked with a white, heart-shaped spot, and the lower series 

 with oval ones : greater quills black ; the exterior wholly so, except 

 a spot or two of white near the base; the second with five white spots 

 on the outer web, ceasing for one inch at the end, and three or four 

 larger round spots from the base to half way on the inner web ; the 

 others much the same, with the ends plain black ; the second quills 

 crossed with three or four spots on each side the web, and being 

 transverse, give the appearance of bars ; from the gape, a broad 

 streak of black, dividing the cheeks from the chin, which, as well 

 as all the under parts, is white, but the sides under the wings, and 

 the vent, spotted with black, most so on the sides of the breast; 

 lesser under wing coverts white, the others spotted with black ; tail 

 three inches and a quarter long, the four middle feathers black, the 

 rest white ; the outmost barred four times on the inner web, and two 

 smaller bars on the outer, corresponding with the two inner ones 

 nearest the end ; the second feather much the same, but black within 

 at the base; the third has the web within black, and white without, 

 with a perpendicular white streak on the inner web, near the end, 

 and two black spots, a larger and a smaller, the first nearest the ends ; 

 the wings reach three-fifths on the tail ; bill and legs black. 



The female is marked much the same as the male, and differs 

 in having the crimson spot, on each side of the nape, about the size 

 of a small pea, close to the upper side of the white ; but in one which 

 came under our observation, there was no red at all on any part of 

 the head. 



Inhabits Georgia and Virginia, but is not a plentiful Species ; 

 chiefly found in the woods, and lives principally on insects, which it 

 procures by running up and down the trees and branches, more 

 especially pines ; is called, in Georgia, Sklit, from the note. 



