HAIRY WOODPECKER. 



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This species inhabits Virginia, Carolina, and 

 New Jersey, where it is reckoned extremely dan- 

 gerous to orchards, as when it has pecked one hole 

 in a tree it makes another in a horizontal direction 

 close to the first, till it has made a complete circle 

 round the tr§£, which generally kills it. 



HAIRY WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus villosus.) 



P. albo nigroque varius, subtus albus, dorso longHudinaliter sub- 



villoso, rectricibus extimis toto albis. 

 Woodpecker varied with black and white ; beneath white ; back 



downy ; outer tail-feathers entirely white. 

 Picus villosus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 175. 16. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



435.—- Lath. Ind. Orn. \. 232. 19. — Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 



2. 64. 



Picus varius virginianus. Briss. 4. 48. 17. 

 Pic chevelu de Virginie. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 74. 

 Pic au chevelu. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 64. 120. 

 Pic varie male de Virginie. Buff. PI. Enl. 754. 

 Hairy Woodpecker. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 104. — Lexmn. Br. Birds. 

 2. 50.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 572. 18.— Lath. Sup. 108. 



This species is rather less than the large spotted 

 Woodpecker, and is about eight inches and three 

 quarters in length : beak an inch and a quarter long, 

 and horn-coloured : head black ; with two white 

 streaks on each side, one over the eye, the other 

 along the under jaw, and both arising from the 

 base of the bill : across the back of the head is a 

 red band : upper parts of the body black, divided 



