386 WOODPECKER. 



58.— CANADA SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



Picus Canadensis, Ind. Orn. i. 230. Bris. iv. 45. t. 2. f. 2. Id. Svo. ii. 54. Gm. 



Lin. i. 437. Gen. Zool. ix. 153. 

 Quauhtotopotli alter, Rail, 162. Fern. N. Hisp. p. 47 ? 

 L'Epeiche du Canada, JBw/l vii. 69. PL enl. 345. 1. 

 Canada Spotted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 569. Arct. Zool. ii. 163. 



SIZE of the Greater Spotted Woodpecker ; length nine inches. 

 Bill one inch and a quarter long, and horn-colour; upper parts of 

 the body black, with a mixture of white in the middle of the back ; 

 under parts whitish ; head black ; forehead dirty white ; on each side 

 a broad white band, passing above the eyes, and joining a pale 

 orange one on the hindhead ; under the eye another white band, 

 which widens as it proceeds downwards on the sides of the neck ; the 

 wing coverts and quills spotted with white ; the two middle tail 

 feathers are black ; the next has a dirty white spot near the tip ; the 

 three others with the ends marked obliquely with white ; the two 

 outmost being wholly white, except at the base ; legs grey brown. 



Inhabits Canada. That figured in PL enl. is probably a female, 

 as it has no orange on the hindhead, nor is the front of a dirty white. 



59.— NORTHERN WOODPECKER. 



Picus borealis, Northern Woodpecker, Gen. Zool.ix. 174. Vieill. Am. Sept.n. 66. 122. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill black ; irides red ; plumage in 

 general black, spotted with dusky ; wing coverts black, spotted with 

 white ; the four exterior tail feathers white, varied with black ; the 

 rest entirely of the latter colour; on the hindhead a narrow red 

 band, and a large white spot from thence to the eyes, below which 



