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PICUS ERYTHROCEPII ALUS. 
being banded with white, gives to that part a war 5 , 
appearance ; the under parts are more thickly watw 
with black : six, instead of four, of the middle taf 
feathers, are almost wholly black, the outer of the sl ’ 
having only two or three whitish spots on the outer W' 1 ' 
The remaining parts, with due allowance, are simi** 
to the adult. f 
The young male gradually assumes the yellow, wbw 
is at first but little extended, and of a pale lemon colo" 1 ' 
through which are yet for some time seen the wl" ! 
dots attributed to the female. She indeed has th^ 
very conspicuous in youth, as they are not confound 5 
with any yellow, but loses them entirely as she ad vain 1 ’ 
to the adult state. 
7. PICUS ERYTHROCEPH ALUS, LINNAEUS. 
YOUNG RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE XIV. FIG. III. 
We have nothing to add to Wilson’s excellent accow 
of the manners of this very common species, and, thee 
fore, shall limit ourselves to the description of the you"? 
The young red-headed woodpecker is nine and 
half inches long, and seventeen inches in extent. TjJ 
bill is short and robust, being but one-eighth niw 
than an inch in length; the upper mandible has d 1 
ridge slightly curved ; the bill is horn colour, whit'd 
at base beneath ; the setaceous feathers covering 
nostrils are very short, and not thick, rufous grft, 
tipped with black; the whole head, neck, and uppj 
parts of the breast, (which are red in the adult) 
blackish, each feather broadly edged with whitf? 
giving- the throat the appearance of being whit'd 
streaked with blackish; the auriculars are plain du^y 
hlack ; from the breast beneath all is dingy white, [ , 
feathers of the breast and lower tail-coverts haV'Jj 
dusky shafts; the back and scapulars are black, f . 
feathers being margined with whitish gray; the n'yj 
and upper tail-coverts pure white ; the wings are *' 
