Harlequin Duck. 



HiEMATOPUS (Linnaeus.) — * Oyster-catcher ; X a genus thus 

 characterised. Bill long-, strong, straight, compressed; point much 

 compressed, formed like a chisel ; nostrils at the sides of the bill slit 

 lengthwise in the groove ; legs strong and muscular ; three toes 

 directed forwards, the middle one re-united to the outer, as far as the 

 first joint by a membrane, and on the inside, by a small rudiment ; 

 toes bordered with the rudiments of a membrane ; wings of a middle 

 size, the first quill the longest.* 



HAGISTER. — A name for the Magpie. 



HAGGARD FALCON.— A name for the Peregrine Falcon. 



HAIRY WOODPECKER (Picus villosus, Linnaeus.) 



*Picus villosus, Linn. Syst. l.p. 175. 16 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 435. — Ind. Orn. 1. p. 

 232. 19. — Pic chevelie de Virginie, Buff. 7. p. 74. — Pic varie de Virginie, pi. 

 Enl. 754.— Hairy Woodpecker, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 164.— Lath. Syn. 2. p. 572. 



18. — Lb. Supp. p. 108 Catesbu, 1. p. 19. fig. 2.— Peele's Museum, No. 1988. 



Flem. Br. Anim.p. 92 Wilsons A mer. Orn. 1. p. 150. — Mont. Diet. — Lewin's 



Br. Birds, 2. p. 48.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 47. 



This species is nearly nine inches in length, and weighs about two 



ounces ; the plumage is black above, with a white stripe of hair-like 



feathers down the middle of the back ; the nape having a red band and 



two white stripes on each side of the head; one over the eye, the 



other along the lower jaw, from the bill, which is an inch and a quarter 



long, of a horn colour, and grooved, wedged at the end; across the 



hind part of the head is a red band ; the wings are spotted with white ; 



under parts of the body wholly white ; four middle feathers of the tail 



are black ; the next marked obliquely on each side with white at the 



tip, the last but one white, with the base black; outer one wholly white; 



