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PICIN^. PICUS. 
274. 19. Picus erythrocephalus, Linn. Red-headed Wood- 
pecker. 
Plate XXVII. Male and Female. 
Head and neck bright crimson, that colour descending on the fore 
neck, and margined with a semilunar band of black ; back wings and 
tail glossy bluish-black ; inner secondaries, rump, and lower parts, 
pure white. Young with the head and neck brownish-grey, streaked 
with dusky ; feathers of back and wing-coverts dusky, edged with 
grey ; secondary quills yellowish-white barred with black ; lower 
parts greyish-white, the sides streaked with dusky. 
Male, 9, 17. Female, 8i. 
Breeds from Texas to Nova Scotia, and throughout the interior to 
the head waters of the Missouri; thence to Lake Huron. Extremely 
common. Great numbers spend the winter in Louisiana. 
Red-headed Woodpecker, Picus erythrocephalus, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 142. 
Picus erythrocephalus, BoNAP. Syn. p. 45. 
Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Red-headed Woodpecker, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. 
Amer. v. ii. p. 316. 
Red-headed Woodpecker, Picus erythrocephalus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 141 ; v. v. 
p. 536. 
275. 20. Picus torquatus, Wils. Lewis’s Woodpecker. 
Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 7. Male. Fig. 8. Female. 
Upper parts black, highly glossed with dark green; a band across 
the forehead, the chin, and a broad patch on the side of the head, sur- 
rounding the eye, deep carmine, or blood-red ; beyond this, the throat 
and part of the sides of the neck black ; a band of dull white across 
the hind neck, continuous anteriorly with a large patch of yellowish- 
white, occupying the fore neck and part of the breast ; the rest of the 
breast and the sides bright red ; low'^er wing-coverts, abdomen, and 
lower tail-coverts black. Young with the red on the head scarcely 
apparent, that on the lower parts mixed with greyish-white, the fore 
part of the neck dull grey, and the white ring on the hind neck want- 
ing ; many of the feathers there with one or two white spots near the 
end. 
Male, 11, wing, 7i%. 
Rocky Mountains, and Columbia River. Abundant. ‘ Migratory. 
Lewis’s Woodpecker, Picus torquatus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p. 31. 
Picus torquatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 46. 
Lewis’s Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 577. 
Lewis’s Woodpecker, Picus torquatus. Add. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 176. 
comparatively slender, slightly arched, acute, with the late- 
ral angles obsolete. Genus Colaptes of authors. 
276. 21. Picus auratus, Linn. Golden- winged Woodpecker. 
— Flicker. Tucker. High-holder. 
Plate XXXVII. Male and Female. 
