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CANADA SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus Canadensis.) 



P. albo nigroque varius, corpore subhis dorsoque medio albo, nucha 

 Julva, rectricibus duabus intermediis nigris immaculatis, duabus 

 extimis albis basi nigris. 



Woodpecker varied with black and white ; body beneath and 

 middle of the back white ; top of the neck fulvous ; the two 

 middle tail-feathers black and immaculate; two outer ones 

 white, black at the base. 



Picus Canadensis. Lath, hid. Orn. 1. 230. 1?. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 43/. 



Picus varius Canadensis. Briss. 4. 45. 16. t. I.f. 2. 

 L'Epeiche du Canada. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 6g.—-Buf, PI. 

 Enl. 345. I. 



Canada Spotted Woodpecker. Pen, Arct. Zool. 2. 163. — Lath. 

 Ind. Orn, 2. 569. \6, 



About the size of a Blackbird: length nine 

 inches : beak horn-coloured, one inch and a quar- 

 ter in length : head black : forehead dirty white : 

 on each side is a broad white band passing above 

 the eyes, and joining another orange-coloured one 

 on the back of the head : there is a white mark 

 beneath the eyes, which gets broader as it proceeds 

 downwards on the sides of the neck : upper parts 

 of the body black, varied with white in the middle 

 of the back : under parts whitish : wing-coverts 

 and quills spotted with white : two middle tail- 

 feathers black ; the next with a dirty white spot 

 near the tip ; the three outer ones obliquely tipped 

 with white ; the two outmost ones entirely white, 

 except the base : legs grey-brown : female without 

 the orange spot on the back of the head. Inhabits 

 Canada. 



