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PILEATED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus pileatus ) 



P. niger, crista rubra, temporibus alisque maculis albis, gula 

 lutescente. 



Black Woodpecker, with a red crest, temples and wings with 



white spots; throat yellowish. 

 Picus pileatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 173. 3. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



425.—- Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 225. 4. — Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 



2. 58. 



Picus virginianus pileatus. B?nss. 4. 2Q. 10. 



Pic noir a huppe rouge. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7« 48. — Vieil. 



Ois. de V Amer. Sept. 2. 58. 110. 

 Pic noir huppe de la Louisiane. Buff. PI. Enl. 7 18. 1. 

 Pileated Woodpecker. Pen. Arc. Zool. 2. 157. — Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 2. 554. 3. — Lath. Sup. 105. 



This bird is in length fifteen inches : beak two 

 inches long, and of a lead-colour ; irides golden : 

 top of the head crowned with long red feathers ; 

 beneath which, over the eye, there is a streak of 

 white, and below this is a broad black one, in 

 which the eyes are placed: on each side of the 

 jaw there is a stripe of red reaching the whole 

 length of the mandible, and part of the way down 

 the neck : cheeks, throat, front, and sides of the 

 neck pale buff ; having a band of black arising at 

 the corners of the mouth, and passing through the 

 middle down the sides of the neck : hind part of 

 the neck, back, and rump black : belly, sides, 

 thighs, breast, and under tail-coverts blackish : 

 wings spotted with white, and a similar coloured 



