MISSOUBI RED-MOUSTACHED WOODPECKER. 
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Abundant throughout the country bordering the Upper Missouri. 
In the male, the bill is cinnamon colour, darker towards the extremities, 
the lower mandible lighter. A medial line and a collar passing back of 
the head and running behind the cheeks, light bluish-grey ; a line over the 
eyes, another running from the lower mandible and the throat, white. 
Cheeks, rest of the head, and upper parts of the back, dull yellowish-brown 
streaked with brownish-black. Rump greyish-brown without streaks ; two 
bands of pale yellowish on the wings. The second primary longest. Wings 
brownish, edged with whitish or pale dull yellow. Tail dull brown, the 
feathers edged with paler. Sides dull yellowish-brown, the middle of the 
lower parts much lighter. A small streak of blackish runs from the lower 
corner of the inferior mandible, legs and feet cinnamon colour. 
From point of bill to end of tail 5 A inches ; alar extent 8 T V ; wing from 
flexure 2 T V ; tail 2f ; tarsus nearly -f. Eye brown. 
FAMILY XXVI.* — PICINiE. WOODPECKERS. 
Genus I.f— PICUS, Linn. WOODPECKER. 
MISSOURI RED-MOUSTACHED WOODPECKER. 
Pious Ayresii, And. 
PLATE CCCCXCIV.— Male. 
This handsome new species was first discovered in the woody borders 
along the shores of the Upper Missouri, near Fort Union, and both my 
friends Harris and Bell procured several specimens, including an adult 
pair. Mr. Bell also discovered its nest-hole, and on having it cut down, 
we found six young birds of this species already fledged, and having the 
red moustache of the old male. 
Although this bird is considerably larger than the Picus auratus, so 
common in our Eastern States, its flight and general habits are much the 
See toI. iy. p. 211. 
f Ibid. p. 212. 
