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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. 
— PICAJRIJE — PICIFOBMES. 
435. P. s. nut'talli. (To Thos. Nuttall. Fig. 332.) Ni'ttall's Woodpecker. Similar ; rather 
larger ; more white, this prevailing on the back over the black bars ; nape chiefly white ; nasal 
tufts white; lateral tail-feathers, especially, sparsely 
or imperfectly barred. The Californian coast race^ 
diftering decidedly in some respects, and constantly ; 
but connected with general series of ladder-backs. 
Barring restricted to the back proper, the hind neck 
being black, succeeded anteriorly by a white space 
adjoining the red, wanting in scalaris, where red 
joins black. Red chiefly confined to the occiput, 
the rest of the crown black, spotted with white. 
Lateral tail-feathers white, not barred througliout, 
having but 1-3 black bars, all beyond their mid- 
dles, all but the terminal one of these broken. 
White postocular stripe running into the white 
nuchal area, but cut off from the white of the 
shoulders. White maxillary stripe enclosed in 
Fig. 332. - Nuttall's Woodpecker, nat. size. I^l'^^^k as in scalaris, but this black continuous with 
(From Elliot.) the cervical black patch, which is not the case in 
scalaris. No smoky-brown state of the under parts observed. 
436. P. s. lucasa'nus. (Of Cape St. Lucas.) St. Lucas Woodpecker. A local race of scalaris. 
Smoky-brown nasal tufts and style of head and back as in that species. Latenil tail-feathers 
imperfectly barred and only toward end, as in nuttalli. Ked of crown of ^ broken up anteriorly. 
Peculiar in disproportionate size of bill and feet : bill 1.10 ; tarsus 0.75. 
437. P. strick'landi. (To H. E. Strickland.) Strickland's Woodpecker. Entirely different 
from any of the foregoing or following species. Adult ^ : Upper parts dark brown, immacu- 
late ; top of head, rump, and 4 middle tail-feathers black ; the occiput with a scarlet band. 
Sides of head with white post-ocular and maxillary bands, expanded and more or less confluent 
on sides of neck. Wing-quills like the back, their outer webs with a few small wliite spots, 
the inner webs with more numerous larger white spots or broken bars. Outermost tail-feathers 
evenly barred throughout with blackish-brown and white ; intermediate feathers partly so 
banded, but mostly blackish. Entire under parts sordid whitish, thickly spotted with dusky ; 
the markings few and somewhat linear on the throat, crowded and cordate on the breast, widen- 
ing and tending to become 
bars on the lower belly, 
flanks, and crissum. Bill 
and feet blackish -plumbe- 
ous. Size of a small P. 
villosus; wing 4.50; tail 
3.25; bill 1.12; tarsus 
0.75 ; middle toe and claw 
0.90. 9 similar : no red 
on nape ; color of upper 
parts duller, and some 
feathers of middle of back 
barred with white. Young: 
Like adults of the respec- "^^ ''^ 
live sex; but top of head 
brown like back, and spot- 
FiG. 333. — Hairy Woodpecker, nat. size. (Ad nat. del. E. C.) 
tedt with red. ^ Mexican species, lately ascertained to be of common occurrei 
Arizona. 
