YOUNG YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 
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dusky, and remarkably granulated, extending, when stretched 
backwards, an inch and a half beyond tlie tail ; tbe tarsi are 
slender, muck elongated, covered before and on each side with 
loose webbed feathers, which are more thickly set near the 
base, and become less crowded towards the toes, where they 
assume the form of short bristles ; those on the toes being al- 
together setaceous, and rather scattered. The lobes beneath 
the toes are large, and much granulated ; the nails are black, 
and rather small, the posterior one having no groove beneath. 
The individual we have described is a male, and no differ- 
ence is observable in several other specimens : the female dif- 
fers in nothing except that her eyes are of a pale yellow co- 
lour. 
YOUNG YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER PICUS VARIES. 
Plate VI 1 1. Fig. 1, 2. 
See Wilson's American Ornithology^ i. p. 147, pi. 9, fig. 2, for the adult and his- 
tory Picus varius, Linn. Syst. i. 176, sp. 20. Gmel. Syst. i. p. 438, sp. 20. 
Lath. Ind. p. 232, sp. 21. Vieill. Ois. del' Am. Sept. ii. p. 63, pi. 118, adult 
male; pi. 119, very young. — Picus varius Carolinensis, Briss. Av. iv. p. 62, sp. 
24, — Picus varius minor, ventre luteo, the yellow-bellied woodpecker, Cateshy, 
Carolina, i. p. 21, pi. 21, left figure, adult male. Bartram, Trav. p. 291.-— 
Epeiche ou Pic varie de la Caroline, Buff. Ois. vii. p. 77. Bl. Enl. 785, adult 
male. — Yellow-bellied woodpecker, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 166. Latham, Syn. i. 
p. 674, sp. 20. — Philadelphia Museum, No. 2004, adult male ; No. 2005, adult 
female. — My Collection, young and. variety. 
PICUS VARIUS.— 
Picus varius, Bonap. Synop. p. 45. 
As Wilson’s history of this well-known woodpecker is 
complete, and his description obviously discriminates the sexes 
and young, we shall refer the reader entirely to him for in- 
formation on those points. The present bird is introduced 
on account of its anomalous plumage ; for, although the colour 
of the head is but slightly advanced towards its red tint, ha- 
