176 
PICIN^. PICUS. 
258. 3. Picus pileatus, Linn. Pileated Woodpecker. — Log- 
cock. 
Plate XIIL Male and Female. 
Fourth toe longer, considerably shorter than third; an occipital 
crest of elongated linear feathers ; general colour black glossed with 
blue, upper part of head, and a band from the lower mandible, deep 
carmine ; loral space and a broad band from the eye to the occiput, 
greyish-black ; a narrow band from the eye margining the red of the 
crest, a band from the base of the upper mandible, down to the side 
of the neck, the throat, axillars, lower wing-coverts, and bases of the 
quills, white. Female similar, with the fore part of the head dusky, 
and the red on the cheek substituted by blackish-brown. 
Male, 18 , 28 . ' 
From Texas to the Columbia River, and along the Atlantic coast, 
as well as in the interior, to the Fur Countries. More abundant in the 
south. Resident every where. 
Pileated Woodpecker, Picus pileatus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 27. 
Picus pileatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 44. 
Picus (Dryotomus) pileatus, Pileated Woodpecker, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. 
V. ii. p. 304. 
Pileated Woodpecker or Log-cock, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 567. 
Pileated Woodpecker, Picus pileatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 74 ; v. v. p. 533. 
259. 4. Picus lineatus, Linn. Lineated Woodpecker. 
Not figured. 
Third and fourth toes about equal, hind toe very small ; an occi- 
pital crest of elongated near feathers ; upper part of the head car- 
mine, inclining to scarlet ; a narrow dusky line from the nostril to the 
eye ; a patch, including the eyelids and ear-coverts, leaden-grey ; a 
narrow band down the hind part of the neck, gradually enlarging, the 
back, wings, and tail, deep black ; a band from the nostrils descend- 
ing obliquely over the side of the head, passing backwards and be- 
hind the ear, then much enlarged, and running down the side of the 
neck to the shoulders, a large oblique patch at the commencement of 
the wing, including the outer scapulars, the small feathers on the edge 
of the wing under the alula, the lower wing-coverts, and the inner 
webs of the quills for about half the length, pure white ; an elongated 
crimson patch at the base of the lower jaw ; chin yellowish-white, 
longitudinally streaked with dusky ; the rest of the fore neck and part 
of the breast black ; the lower parts and sides brownish -white, trans- 
versely barred with black. 
Male, 15 , wing, 7 t%* 
Columbia River. 
Picus lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 174. 
Lineated Woodpecker, Picus lineatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 315. 
