PILEA.TED WOODPECKER. 
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semicircular and remarkably powerful, — the whole of a light 
blue or lead colour. The female is about half an inch shorter, 
the bill rather less, and the whole plumage of the head black, 
glossed with green ; in the other parts of the plumage, she 
exactly resembles the male. In the stomachs of three which 
I opened, I found large quantities of a species of worm called 
borers, two or three inches long, of a dirty cream colour, with 
a black head ; the stomach was an oblong pouch, not muscular 
like the gizzards of some others. The tongue was worm-shaped, 
and for half an inch at the tip as hard as horn, flat, pointed, 
of the same white colour as the bill, and thickly barbed on 
each side.* 
PILEATED WOODPECKER. — PICUS PILEATUS. 
Plate XXIX. Fig. 2. 
Pious niger, crista rubra, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 225, 4. — Pious pileatus, Linn. Syst. 
i. p. 173,3 Gmel. Syst. i. p. 425. — Pious Virginianus pileatus, Briss. iv. p. 
29, 10. — Id. 8vo, ii. p. 50. — Pio noir a huppe rouge, Buff. vii. p. 48. — Pic noir 
huppe de la Louisiana, PI. enl. 718 Larger Crested Woodpecker, Catesh. Car. 
i. 6, 17. — Pileated Woodpecker, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 157 — Lath. Syn. ii. p. 554, 
3 — Id. Supp. p. 105. — Bartram, p. 289 — Peak's Museum , No. 1886. 
PICUS I’lLEATUS.-Limmvs.i 
Picus pileatus, Bonap. Synop. p. 44 Wagl. Syst. Av. No. 2. — Picus (dryotomus) 
pileatus, North. Zool. ii. p. 304. 
This American species is the second in size among his 
tribe, and may be styled the great northern chief of the 
Woodpeckers, though, in fact, his range extends over the whole 
* Wilson seems to have been in some uncertainty regarding the nidification 
of this species, and probably never saw the nest. The account of Mr Audubon 
will fill up what is here wanting Ed. 
f As we remarked in our last note, Mr Swainson, according to the views he 
entertains, has divided the large family Piciance into five great divisions, and 
the different forms in these again into groups of lesser value. For the type 
of one of them, he has chosen the Picus pileatus, under the title of Dryotomus , 
differing from Picus , in the exterior outer toe being shorter than the anterior 
external one, exactly the reverse of the proportions of Picus. — Ed. 
