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black, the quills tinged with brown ; feather along the middle of the 
back largely tipped with white ; quills, excepting the inner three, 
marked with small roundish spots, of which there are five on the outer 
and four on the inner web of the four longest quills, while on the outer 
there is only an elongated spot on the inner web, and on the next one 
spot on the outer and three on the inner ; four middle tail-feathers 
black, the next black, with a small part of the inner web, and a large 
portion of the outer toward the end, white ; the rest white, with the 
base black ; the outermost small feathers almost entirely white ; lower 
parts brownish-white. Female wants the red occipital band. This 
species is distinguishable from all the other spotted species, by having 
no white spots on the wing-coverts. 
Makj 9 ; wing, 
Columbia River. Rare. 
Harris’s Woodpecker, Picus Harrisii, Auo. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 191. 
264. 9. Picus villosus, Linn. Hairy Woodpecker. 
Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female. 
Bill as long as the head ; fourth toe considerably longer than third ; 
fourth and fifth quills longest and equal ; bristly feathers over the nos- 
trils dull yellow, tipped with black ; upper part of head and hind neck 
glossy black ; over the eye a band of white, continuous with a trans- 
verse band of scarlet on the occiput, usually divided in the middle ; a 
black band from the bill to the eye, continued behind it over the auri- 
culars, and joining the black of the hind neck ; beneath this, a band 
of white from the angle of the mouth, curving backwards below the 
middle of the neck, so as to meet its fellow behind ; then a black 
band from the base of the lower mandible ; upper parts black, tinged 
with brown behind; feathers along the middle of the back, tipped 
with white ; wing-coverts, the anterior excepted, and quills spotted 
with white, there being on the four longest primaries seven on the 
outer and five on the inner web, on most of the secondaries five on 
each web, but on the outer quill only one patch on each web, and on 
the second, two spots on the outer and three on the inner ; four middle 
tail-feathers glossy black, the rest black only towards the base ; lower 
parts white, tinged with dull green on the fore neck and breast, the 
sides with blackish-grey. Female without red on the head. 
Male, 8|, 144. Female, 84, 15. 
Breeds from Texas to New Hampshire, Kentucky, and Valley of 
the Mississippi. Common. Resident. 
Hairy Woodpecker, Picus villosus, Wils. Amer. Oru. v. i. p. 150. 
Picus villosus, Bonap. Syn. p, 46. 
Hairy Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 575. 
Hairy Woodpecker, Picus villosus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 164. 
