406 WOODPECKER. 



and under tail coverts white, crossed with bands of brown ; upper 

 parts in general black, but the wings are marked with white spots, 

 as in many other Woodpeckers ; down the middle of the back buff- 

 colour, mottled transversely with zigzags of dusky and black ; upper 

 tail coverts spotted black and white ; the two middle tail feathers 

 black, marked on the insides of the shafts with white, and two or 

 three of the outer ones black, with white spots on both webs ; legs 

 pale lead-colour. 



The female has the crown red, but without the red on the throat; 

 nape and back black, with dusky, pale, yellowish white spots, and 

 a white streak down the middle of the wing. 



In the young bird, the crown of the head is brown, with pale 

 spots; sides of the throat, and across the breast, mottled in bars of 

 pale and dark brown ; belly pale yellow; the upper parts yellowish, 

 spotted with black on the back ; wings and tail as in the adult ; 

 but the legs paler than in the old bird. 



Young of both sexes have the crown black, and deep scarlet ; 

 and this last colour is seen in the young males. 



Inhabits North America; called by some the Sap-Sucker; makes 

 a circle of holes round apple trees, and by means of the bill sucks 

 out the juice or sap ; called in Hudson's Bay, Mehisewe Paupastaow; 

 common in Pennsylvania ; comes into orchards inOctober, but rarely 

 seen among the settlements in summer; associates with the Downy 

 Species, having nearly the same manners, and lays four white eggs ; 

 a nest met with the 25th of May. 



A young female bird, in the Leverian Museum, had the throat 

 mottled brown and yellowish, without any black surrounding it, or 

 any red on the chin, but the crown red, surrounded with black, as 

 in the adult male, but paler. 



Whether this Species inhabits any part of the European Continent 

 has not come to our knowledge ; but it is said by Georgi to frequent 

 the Lake Baikal. 



