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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Iris brown or hazel. Length, 9.75; wing, 5.90 ; tail, 3.90. Hab. Eastern 
Province of the United States, west to the Rocky Mountains. ( Red-headed 
Woodpecker .) 
B. Sexes dissimilar ; young like the adult. 
M. formicivorus. Forehead and a broad crescent across the middle of the 
throat (the two areas connected by a narrow strip across the lore) white, 
more or less tinged with sulphur-yellow. Rump, upper tail-coverts, ab- 
domen, sides, and crissum, with patch on base of primaries, pure white, 
the sides and breast with black streaks. Other portions glossy blue- black. 
Whole crown and nape carmine. 9 with the occiput and nape 
alone red. More than the anterior half of the pectoral band immacu- 
late. 
9 with the white frontal black coronal and red occipital bands 
of about equal width. Forehead and throat only slightly tinged 
with sulphur-yellow. Iris varying from white to red, blue, yellow, 
ochraceous, and brown. Length, 9.50; wing, 5.80 ; tail, 3.90 ; bill, 
1.27. Hob. Pacific Province of United States, and Northern and 
Western Mexico. ( California Woodpecker .) . . var. fo rmic i v.orus 
9 with the white frontal band only about half as wide as the 
black coronal, which is only about half as wide as the red occipi- 
tal band or patch. Forehead and throat bright sulphur-yellow. 
Iris probably as in the last. Length, 8.00 ; wing, 5.40 ; tail, 3.65 ; 
bill, 1.23. Hab. Lower California. {Narrow-fronted Woodpecker.) 
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” Genus COLAFTES, Swainson. . * 
Common Characters. Head and neck ashy or brown, unvaried except by a 
black or red malar patch in the male. Back and wings brown, banded trans- 
versely with black ; rump and upper tail-coverts white. Beneath whitish, with 
circular black spots, and bands on crissum ; a black pectoral crescent. Shafts and 
under surfaces of quills and tail-feathers either yellow or red. Iris brown or 
hazel. 
A. Mustache red ; throat ash ; no red nuchal crescent. 
a. Under surface and shafts of wings and tail red. 
1. C. mexicanus. Hood ashy-olivaceous, more rufescent anteriorly, 
light cinnamon on lores and around eyes ; feathers of mustache light 
ash below surface. Upper parts umber-brown, barred with black, the 
black only about one fourth as wide as the brown. Shafts, etc., fine 
salmon-red, or pinkish orange-red. Rump unspotted ; black terminal 
zone of tail broad, sharply defined. Length, 13.00 ; wing, 6.70 ; tail, 
5.00; bill, 1.60. Hab. Middle and Western Province of United States, 
south into Eastern Mexico to Mirador and Orizaba, and Jalapa. {Red- 
sliafted Flicker.) 
b. Under surface and shafts of wings and tail gamboge-yellow. 
2. C. chrysoides. Hood uniform light cinnamon ; upper parts raw 
umber with sparse, very narrow and distant, bars of black. Rump 
immaculate ; black terminal zone of tail occupying nearly the terminal 
half, and very sharply defined. Length, 1.50 ; wing, 5.90 ; tail, 5.70 ; 
