228 YOUNG YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 
on each side with loose webbed feathers, which are more 
thickly set near the base, and become less crowded towards 
the toes, where they assume the form of short bristles ;-those — 
on the toes being altogether setaceous, and rather scattered. 
The lobes beneath the toes are large, and much granulated ; 
the nails are black, and rather small, the posterior one having 
no groove beneath. 
The individual we have described is a male, and no differ- 
ence is observable in several other specimens: the female dif- 
fers in nothing except that her eyes are of a pale yellow 
colour. 
YOUNG YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 
(Picus varius.) 
PLATE VIII.—Fie. 1, 2. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, 1. p. 147, pl. 9, fig. 2, for the adult and his- 
tory.—Picus varius, Linn. Syst. 1,176, sp. 20.—G mel. Syst. i. p. 438, sp. 20.— 
Lath. Ind. p. 232, sp. 21.—Vieill. Ois. de. VAm. Sept. ii. p. 63, pl. 118, adult 
male ; pl. 119, very young.—Picus varius Carolinensis, Briss. Av. iv. p. 62, 
sp. 24.—Picus varius minor, Ventre luteo, the Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, 
Catesby, Carolina, i. p. 21, pl. 21, left figure, adult male.—Bartram, Trav. 
p. 291.—Epeiche ou Pic varié de la Caroline, Buff. Ois. vii. p. 77, Pl. ent. 785, 
adult male.—Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 166.— 
Latham, Syn. i. p. 574, sp. 20.—Philadelphia Museum, 2004, adult male ; 
No. 2005, adult female.—My Collection, young and variety. 
PICUS VARIUS.—BONAPARTE. 
Picus varius, Bonap. Synop. p. 45. 
As Wilson’s history of this well-known woodpecker is com- 
plete, and his description obviously discriminates the sexes 
and young, we shall refer the reader entirely to him for infor- 
mation on those points. The present bird is introduced. on 
account of its anomalous plumage; for although the colour of 
the head is but slightly advanced towards its red tint, having 
only two or three reddish points visible on the forehead, yet 
the patch on the breast is quite as obvious as it is found in 
the adult state. In young birds of the first and second years, 

