HED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 
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continuing- their caresses after tliis period, I be- 
i'®’'’e that they often, and perhaps always, produce two 
^•'•'ods in a season. During the greatest part of the 
J’^Rinjer, tlie young have the ridge of the neck and 
*'®'td of* a dull brownish ash ; and a male of the third 
has received his complete colours. 
I’he red-hellied woodpecker is ten inches in length, 
^*><1 Seventeen in extent ; the bill is nearly an inch and 
Half in length, wedged at the point, but not quite so 
Nch grooved as some others, strong, and of a bluish 
colour ; the nostrils are placed in one of these 
poves, and covered with curving tufts of light brown 
ending in black points ; the feathers on the front 
: j *^*1 nioro ftrcct than usual, aud arc of a dull yellou'- 
n'l-ed; from thence, along the whole upper part of 
t « head and neck, down the back, and spreading round 
, the shoulders, is of the most brilliant golden glossy 
the whole cheeks, line over the eye, and under 
I of the neck, is a pale huff colour, n hich, on the 
/''■‘St and belly, deepens into a yellon ish ash, stained 
f** the belly with a blood red ; the vent and thigh 
^thers are dull white, mar-ked down their centres 
Iji th heart-formed and long ari’ow-pointed spots of 
The back is black, crossed with transverse enr- 
l’’’? lines of white; the wings are also black; the 
wing-coverts circularly tipt, .and the whole pri- 
v?^es and secondaries beautifully crossed u ith bars ol 
in* ^0*1 “1*0 tlpt with the same ; the rump is white, 
w,®*^persed with touches of bhack ; the tail-coverts, 
f„ *’lo near the extremities ; the tail consists ot ten 
Hll'ers, the two middle ones black, their interior n ebs 
'’“nes white, crossed with diagonal spots ot black ; 
when the edges of the two feathers just touch, 
, ’“cide, and form heart-shaped spots ; a nan-ow sword- 
,rP®d line of white runs up the exterior side ot the 
of the same feathers ; the next four feathers, on 
side, are black; the outer edges of the exterior 
barred with black and white, which, on the lower 
rH seems to cross the whole vane; the extremities of 
® ’^hole tail, except the outer feather, are black. 
