PILE A TED WOODPECKER. jg 



greatly concave below; the wing is lined with yellowish 

 white ; the legs are about an inch and a quarter long, the ex- 

 terior toe about the same length, the claws exactly semicircular 

 and remarkably powerful, — the whole of a light blue or lead 

 colour. The female is about half an inch shorter, the bill 

 rather less, and the whole plumage of the head black, glossed 

 with green ; in the other parts of the plumage, she exactly 

 resembles the male. In the stomachs of three which I 

 opened, I found large quantities of a species of worm called 

 borers, two or three inches long, of a dirty cream colour, with 

 a black head ; the stomach was an oblong pouch, not muscular 

 like the gizzards of some others. The tongue was worm- 

 shaped, and for half an inch at the tip as hard as horn, flat, 

 pointed, of the same white colour as the bill, and thickly 

 barbed on each side.* 



PILEATED WOODPECKER. {Picus pileatus.) 



PLATE XXIX.— Fig. 2. 



Picus niger, crista rubra, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 225, 4. — Picus pileatus, Linn. 

 Syst. i. p. 173, 3. — Gmel. Syst. i. p. 425. — Picus Virginianus pileatus, Briss. 

 iv. p. 29, 10. — Id. 8vo, ii. p. 50. — Pic noir a huppe rouge, Buff. vii. p. 48.— 

 Pic noir huppe de la Louisiana, PI. enl. 718. — Larger Crested Woodpecker, 

 Catesb. Car. i. 6, 17. — Pileated Woodpecker, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 157. — Lath. 

 Syn. ii. p. 554, 3. — Id. Supp. p. 105. — Bartram, p. 289. — Peale's Museum, 

 No. 1886. 



PICUS PILEATUS.— LiNN^Us.t 



Picus pileatus, Bonap. Synop. p. 44. — Wagl. Syst. Av. No. 2. — Picus (dryotomus) 

 pileatus, North. Zool. ii. p. 304. 



This American species is the second in size among his tribe, 

 and may be styled the great northern chief of the woodpeckers, 



* Wilson seems to have been in some uncertainty regarding the nidi- 

 fi cation of this species, and probably never saw the nest. The account 

 of Mr Audubon will fill up what is here wanting. — Ed. 



+ As we remarked in our last note, Mr Swainson, according to the 

 views he entertains, has divided the large family Piciance into five great 

 divisions, and the different forms in these again into groups of lesser 



