YOUNG RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. B25 
to the male, even in the minutest particulars, excepting the 
absence of yellow on the head, this part being of a rich and 
glossy black. 
The young of both sexes are of a dull blackish; the seta- 
ceous feathers of the nostrils are greyish, somewhat tinged 
with rusty; all the feathers of the crown are tipt with 
white, constituting thick dots on that part, to which they 
give a silvery appearance; the cheek-bands are obscure and 
much narrower; the cervix is more or less varied with white, 
and the feathers of the back being banded with white, gives 
to that part a waved appearance; the under parts are more 
thickly waved with black: six, instead of four, of the middle 
tail-feathers are almost wholly black, the outer of the six 
having only two or three whitish spots on the outer web. The 
remaining parts, with due allowance, are similar to the 
adult. 
The young male gradually assumes the yellow, which is at 
first but little extended, and of a pale lemon colour, through 
which are yet for some time seen the white dots attributed to 
the female. She indeed has them very conspicuous in youth, 
as they are not confounded with any yellow, but loses them 
entirely as she advances to the adult state. 
YOUNG RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
(Picus erythrocephalus.) 
PLATE XIV.—Fice. 3. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, vol. i. p. 142, pl. 9, fig. 1, for the adult.— 
Picus erythrocephalus, Linn. Syst. i. p. 174, sp. 7.—Mus. Adolph. Frid. ii. 
p. 21.—Briss. Orn. iv. p. 52, sp. 19, pl. 3, fig. 1; Id. 8vo, ii. p. 50.—Gmel. 
Syst. i. p. 429, sp. 7.—Borowsk. Nat. ii. p. 136, sp. 4.—Lath. Ind. p. 227, 
sp. 9, adult.—Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. ii. p. 60, pl. 112, adult; pl. 113, young. 
—Picus obscurus, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 429.—Lath. Ind. p. 228, sp. 11, young.— 
Picus capite toto rubro, the Red-headed Woodpecker, Catesby, Car. i. pl. 20, 
adult.—Picus capite colloque rubris, Klein, Av. p. 28, sp. 12, adult.—Picus 
capite toto rubro, Kalm, It. iii. pl. 43, adult.—Picchio di testa rossa, Storia 
degli Uce. pl. 170, adult.—Pic noir 4 domino rouge, Buf. Ois. vii. p. 55, adult. 
—Pic de Virginie, Buff. Pl. enl. 117, adult.—Pic tricolor, Vieill. l. c. adult 
