GENUS III. — PICUS. 
5- PICUS VARIUS, BONAPARTE. 
YOUNG yellow-bellied WOODPECKER. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE VIII. PIG. I, II. 
is oomrilet ° U S !'Vt or - v °f this well known woodpecker 
the sexes °’ !! n< *’ s description obviously discriminates 
to him f • y° un g> we shall refer the reader entirely 
h*rd is i n , *, ln ‘°rmation on these points. The present 
tor 011 af: °ount of anomalous plumage ; 
advanced + the colour of the head is but slightly 
reddish . 0 ^' an } 8 , ts red tint, having only two or three 
the breast V - 1S1 ^ 0,1 the forehead, yet the patch on 
state T,i I s < l ult< ; as obvious as it is found in the adult 
patch is „2T^ , r, } s °t the first and second years, this 
gray ait], W , T obsolete, the breast being chieily dusky 
th ® is entirely red. * 
states of P 0S8 *hly exhibiting one of the periodical 
riffc" 0f n lis ohangeable bird, is the only 
number of the vonL^fy t? procure amon ff st a great 
The well marked ! mtl Sfi xes in the ordinary dress, 
belief that this i j ° n ^ le breast might induce the 
.bi.tr.’ jr — -*? 
y'Sitr - ™«“' “rsfczs'S 
Wale we r.l i • ‘wen proved, on dissection, to be a 
of Novemfi bt al f 1 -°j t e c e *7 da y during- the month 
entirelv r ! ’ y ° U "” b ‘ r< " of both sexes with the crown 
thein,L m d t 0r mnn “. 0r sprinkled with that colour, 
plumano IX Ure ansnl g ^together from age or advanced 
With a-iv d ad " 0t r’ 01U S !‘ x ' We “re unable to state, 
any degree ot certainty, at what period the bird 
