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PICUS PILEATUS. 
rior feathers, which are three inches shorter than * ^ 
middle ones, and each feather lias the siiio-ularity.,i 
lined 'f, 
llri 
being- greatly concave lielow ; the 
wing IS 
yellowisli ivliite; the legs are about an inch an 
.....IV, i,uc irg^ lire uiMiiir an incii 
quarter long, tlie exterior ton about the same lengthjJ t 
claws exactly semicircular and remarkably pon 
the whole of a light blue or lead colour. ‘The ftn'^ 
is about half an inch shorter, the bill rather less, 
the whole jiliimage of the head black, glossed 
green ; in the other parts of the plumage, she eX* p 
resembles the male. In the stomachs of three " 
opened, I found large quantities of a species of 
J. -. .cl • 1 » * 
called borers, two or three inches long, of a dirty f' -< 
r.,V.'C 7. 7 I, 71 7/ S7J V ■ 1 f V X. J » 1 1, U I . I U I » , U 1 ll Ulllj ,lM 
colour, with a black head ; the stomach was an nl** ^ 
pouch, not nuisoiihir like tlio ffizzards of some 
'T’U- .i. . 1 7 f, 7 
The tongue was worm-shaped, and for half an in‘''*'j(i 
the tip as h.ard as horn, flat, pointed, of the same 
colour as the bill, and thickly barbed on each side* 
S9. PICUS PIJ.EATUS, I,INN.^US. PILEATED WOODPE^'*^^'^ 
fit 
WILSON, PL. XXIX. riG. H. — MALE. —EDINBURGH 
MU.SEUM. 
Tms American species is the second in size 
his tribe, and may he styled the great northern 
of the woodpeckers, though, in fact, his rang** ,jt 
tends over the whole of the United .States fro**^ I 
interior of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. He i'* I 
numerous in the Gennesee country, and in antin’*^,,), 
of high timbered forests, parlienkirlv in tlie neigl’V jnl 
hood of our large rivera, where he is noted for 'i'*'* ,,.ft 
a' loud and almost incessant cackling heftn’'^ 
W'eather; flying at such times in a restless (C 
manner from tree to tree, making the wimds 
his outcry. In Pennsylvania and the northern ^ ^ 
he is called the black uoodeoek; in the so',' (!)•' 
states, tile logcock. Almost every old Iriink vfl. 
forest where he resides hears the marks of his oe 
