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PICIN^. PICUS. 
270. 15. Picus varius, Linn. Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. 
Male with the crown of the head and throat bright carmine ; a semi- 
circular patch of black on the lower fore neck, and a semilunar band 
on the occiput ; upper parts bluish-black, variegated with white and 
yellow, lower yellow, with the sides undulated with dusky ; middle 
tail-feathers with the inner web white, obliquely banded with black. 
Female similar, but with the throat white, and the yellow of the lower 
parts less pure. Young without red on the head or throat, the former 
dusky, streaked with faint brown, the latter greyish-white, the upper 
parts as in the adult, but duller, the tail variegated with white, the 
lower parts dull yellowish-grey, undulated with dusky, the abdomen 
dull yellowish. 
Malej 8L 15. 
Breeds from Maryland northward to the Saskatchewan. Rather rare 
in the interior in summer. Many spend the winter in the Southern 
and Western Districts. 
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Picus varius, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 147. 
Picus varius, Bonap. Syn. p. 45. 
Picus (Dendrocopus) varius, Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. 
Amer. v. ii. p. 309. 
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 574. 
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Picus varius, Aun. Amer. Orn. v.i. p. 519 ; v.v. p. 537. 
* * Hind toe wanting. Genus Apternus of authors. 
271. 16. Picus arcticus, Swains. Arctic Three-toed Wood- 
pecker. 
Plate C XXXII. Male and Female. 
Three-toed, with the upper parts glossy bluish-black, the lower 
white, the sides and lower wing-coverts transversely barred with 
black ; tufts of bristly feathers black ; crown of the head salFron- 
yellow ; a white line from behind the eye, a band of the same from 
the base of the upper mandible to beneath the ear-coverts, succeeded 
by a black band ; inner webs of all the quills and outer webs of the 
primaries spotted with white, there being seven spots on the outer, 
and five on the inner webs of the three longest ; four middle tail- 
feathers black, the next with an oblique band of white, the rest black 
only at the base, except the outermost, of which nearly all the inner- 
web is of that coloutf. Female without yellow on the head. 
Male, lOi, 16. 
From the northern parts of New York to the Fur Countries, as well 
as along the eastern declivities of the Rocky Mountains. Rather com- 
mon. Partially migratory. 
Picus tridactylus, Bonap. Syn. p. 46. 
Northern Three-toed Woodpecker, Picus tridactylus, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. ii. p. 14. 
