392 WOODPECKER. 



colour, top of the head black; above each eye a white line; hind 

 head red ; back of the neck, the back, and rump black, divided into 

 two parts by a line of white, passing down the middle to the rump ; 

 scapulars, upper wing, and tail coverts black ; greater wing coverts, 

 and quills spotted with white ; under parts of the body pale grey ; 

 tail black, the four middle feathers plain, the rest barred with white 

 and black ; legs black. 



In the male the three outer tail feathers are white, with two 

 transverse black bars ; the fourth fringed outwardly with white. 



The female differs in having the hindhead crossed with white 

 instead of red, and in this sex more white on the outer web of the 

 fourth tail feather. 



Young males have little or no red on the hindhead. 



Inhabits America, especially Virginia, and Carolina; it builds 

 iu the holes of trees, like the generality of its race ; the egg like that 

 of the Hairy Woodpecker, but smaller. Kalm observes, that it 

 abounds in New Jersey, and is, of all others, the most dangerous to 

 orchards, as well as the most daring ; for having pecked a hole in a 

 tree, it makes another close to the first, in a horizontal direction, 

 proceeding till there is a circle of holes round the trunk, by which 

 the apple trees, having often several of these rings of holes round the 

 stem, frequently dry up, and decay; this is called, by some, the 

 Least Sap-Sucker; but the name of Sap-Sucker is also given to the 

 Yellow-bellied and Hairy Species ; said to lay six white eggs. 



64— WAVED WOODPECKER. 



L'Epeiche varie onde, Buf. vii. 78. 

 Pic tachete de Cayenne, PI. enl. 553. 



SIZE of the Middle Woodpecker. Bill and legs dusky ; fore- 

 head buff; spotted with dusky, the whole top of the head rufous red; 



