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GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER. 
are of a beautiful golden yellow — that on the shafts of the pri- 
maries being very distinguishable, even when the wings are 
shut; the rump is white, and remarkably prominent; the tail- 
coverts white, and curiously serrated with black; upper side of 
the tail, and the tip below, black, edged with light loose fila- 
ments of a cream colour, the two exterior feathers serrated with 
whitish; shafts black towards the tips, the two middle ones near- 
ly wholly so; bill an inch and a half long, of a dusky horn colour, 
somewhat bent, ridged only on the top, tapering, but not to a 
point, that being a little wedge-formed; legs and feet light blue; 
iris of the eye hazel; length twelve inches, extent twenty. The 
female differs from the male chieffy in the greater obscurity of 
the fine colours, and in wanting the black mustaches on each 
side of the throat. This description, as well as the drawing, 
was taken from a very beautiful and perfect specimen. 
Though this species, generally speaking, is migratory, yet 
they often remain with us in Pennsylvania during the whole 
winter. They also inhabit the continent of North America, from 
Hudson’s Bay to Georgia; and have been found, by voyagers, 
on the northwest coast of America. They arrive at Hudson’s 
Bay in April, and leave it in September. Mr. Hearne, however, 
informs us, that “the Golden-winged Woodpecker is almost 
the only species of Woodpecker that winters near Hudson’s 
Bay.” The natives there call it Ou-thee-quan-nor-mv, from 
the golden colour of the shafts and lower side of the wings. It 
has numerous provincial appellations in the different states of 
the Union, such as “ High-hole,” from the situation of its nest, 
and “ Hittock,” “ Yucker,” “ Piut,” “ Flicker,” by which last 
it is usually known in Pennsylvania. These names have pro- 
bably originated from a fancied resemblance of its notes to the 
sound of the words; for one of its most common cries consists of 
two notes or syllables, frequently repeated, which, by the help 
of the hearer’s imagination, may easily be made to resemble any 
or all of them. 
