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with white j there being eight spots on the outer^ and six on the inner 
webs of the longest quills ; middle tail-feathers blacky outer four on 
each side white, with black bars ; lower parts white, sides of the neck 
and body with oblong black spots. Male with a small carmine line 
behind the eye. 
Male, 8^, Idi. Female, 7|, IS^. 
From Texas to New Jersey, along the Atlantic districts. Common, 
In the interior to Lower Mississippi. Resident. 
Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Picus querulus, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. ii. p. 103. 
Picus querulus, Bonap. Syn. p. 46. 
Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 577. 
Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Picus querulus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 12. 
268. 13 Picus Auduboni, Trudeau. Audubon’s Wood- 
pecker. 
Plate CCCCXVII. Adult. 
Bill about the length of the head, with the outlines considerably 
arched, the tips acute, and not laterally worn ; upper parts black, 
lower white, with a tinge of brown, the sides very faintly barred with 
dusky ; tufts covering the nostrils white ; on the anterior part of the 
top of the head some feathers largely tipped with yellow; a band of 
white over the eye ; loral space and a broad band behind the eye 
black ; feathers along the middle of the back tipped with white ; wings 
spotted with white ; six spots on the outer, and four on the inner webs, 
of the longer primaries ; four middle tail-feathers black, the next with 
the tip obliquely white, that colour enlarging on the rest, so as to in- 
clude almost the whole of the outer feathers. 
Adult, 7, ISi 
Louisiana. 
Picus Auduboni, Audubon’s Woodpecker, Trudeau, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila- 
delphia, V. vii. p. 404. 
Audubon’s Woodpecker, Picus Auduboni, AuD. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 194. 
269. 14. Picus ruber. Gmel. Red-breasted Woodpecker. 
Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 9. Male. Fig. 10. Female. 
Head, neck, and fore part of breast, deep carmine ; upper parts 
black, variegated with white, lower j)ale yellow, with the sides undu- 
lated with dusky; middle tail-feathers with the inner web white, 
obliquely banded with black. 
Male, 8, 14. Female, 8 ; wing, 5^2. 
Upper California. Columbia River. Nootka. Common. Migra- 
tory. 
Red-breasted Woodpecker, Picus ruber, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 179. 
