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RED-BELLIED W 001) PECKER. 
the liead with blue reflections, the back and wings tinged with brown. The 
tufts over the nostrils are dull yellow ; the anterior part of the head pale 
yellow, spotted with white ; a band of white, with small dusky lines, passes 
from the angle of the mouth to the occiput ; the back is transversely banded 
with white ; the quills are brownish-black, spotted and tipped with white, 
the four longest primaries with seven spots on the outer, and five on the 
inner web, on most of the secondaries five on each web. The four middle 
tail-feathers are black, the next* black, largely tipped with white, the rest 
white, but, except the outer small feathers, with a black band at the base. 
The lower parts are white, excepting the sides, and lower wing-coverts, 
which are banded with black. 
Length to end of tail 9 inches ; bill along the ridge 1, along the edge of 
lower mandible lfV ; wing from flexure 4fb; tail 82 ; tarsus fli second toe 
tV, its claw T 4 |; third toe T \, its claw W; fourth toe 7|, its claw T %. 
Adult Female. 
The female, which is somewhat smaller, differs from the male in wanting 
the yellow patch on the head, the whole of that part being black, with small 
white spots. 
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 
Pious CAROLINUS, Linn. 
PLATE CCLXX. — Male and Female. 
Much of what I have said respecting the habits of several of our Spotted 
Woodpeckers applies to the present species, which differs, however, in the 
greater extent of its migration in the spring and summer months, when the 
£ eater number of those which return from the south to our Middle and 
Eastern Districts proceed considerably farther northward than the Hairy 
Woodpecker, although not so far as the Canadian. In winter I have found 
the Red-bellied Woodpecker the most abundant of all in the pine barrens of 
the Floridas, and especially on the plantations bordering the St. John’s river, 
where on any day it would have been easy to procure half a hundred. 
Indeed on this account, and from its well-known notes, the officers and men 
