390 WOODPECKER. 



and a quarter long, and horn-coloured; the head is black, with two 

 white lines on each side, the one passing above the eye, the other 

 along the lower jaw, and down the neck, both arising at the base of 

 the bill ; across the hind head is a red band, divided in the middle 

 with a black line ; the upper parts of the body are black, and the 

 colour divided by a list of white feathers, like hairs, passing down 

 the back ; the wings, and upper tail coverts spotted with white ; all 

 the under parts white ; the four middle tail feathers are black ; the 

 next on each side obliquely white at the tip ; the last but one white, 

 with the base black ; and the outer one wholly white ; legs grey- 

 brown. 



The female differs in wanting the red on the hind head ; lays four 

 whiteeggs — hatches in June. Numerous in Pennsylvania ; seen from 

 Hudson's Bay to Georgia. 



Inhabits more particularly Carolina, Virginia, and Canada : 

 common in the woods about plantations, and lives chiefly on insects ; 

 said to destroy the apple trees, by pecking holes in them. 



This has been met with in England ; but I have only heard of 

 two or three instances of the circumstance ; one in particular, com- 

 municated by the late Mr. Bolton, of Stannary, near Halifax, 

 Yorkshire, of a pair being shot among the old trees in the park of 

 Sir George Armitage, Bart, at Kirklees Hall, where they no doubt had 

 been bred, but the wood being cut down the succeeding winter, the rest 

 forsook the ground, and could not be traced further. — The above 

 pair were presented to the late Duchess Dowager of Portland, in 

 whose collection I saw them many years since. 



These birds answered to the general description in every particular, 

 except in not having the red bar across the hind head so complete, 

 being only a patch of that colour on each side of the head. — I suspect 

 this to be the Leuconote of M. Temminck, which he says is seen 

 accidentally in the N. Provinces of Germany, in the winter season. 



