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YOUNG RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
YOUNG RED-HEADED WOODPECKER PICUS ERYTHRO- 
CEPHALUS.— Plate XIV. Fig. 3. 
See Wilson'' s American Ornithology, vol. i. p. 142, pi. 9, %. 1, for the adult.- — 
Picus erythrocephalus, Linn. Syst. i. p. 174, sp. 7. Mus. Adolph. Frid. ii. p. 
21. Briss. Orn. iv. p. 52, sp. 19. ph 3, fig. 1. Id. 8vo, ii. p. 50. Gmel. 
Syst. i. p. 429, sp. 7. Borowsk, Nat. ii. p. 136, sp. 4. Lath. Ind. p. 227, 
sp. 9, adult. Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. ii. p. 60, pi. 112, adult; pi. 113, young. — 
Picus obscurus, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 429. Lath. Ind. p. 228, sp. 11, young.— 
Picus capite toto rubro, the Red-headed Woodpecker, Cateshy, Car. i. pi. 20, adult. 
— Picus capite colloque rubris, Klein, Av. p. 28, sp. 12, adult. — Picus capite toto 
rubro, JKalm, It. iii. pi. 43, adult. — Picchio di testa rossa, Storia degli Ucc. pi. 
170, adult. — Pic noir a domino rouge. Buff. Ois. vii. p. 55, adult. — Pic de Vir- 
ginie. Buff. Pi. Enl. 117, adult — ^Pic tricolor, Vieill, 1. c. adult and young. — Red- 
headed woodpecker, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 160. Kahn, Trav. (^Angl.^u. p. 86. 
Lath. Synop. ii. p. 561, adult. — White-rumped woodpecker. Lath. Syn. ii. p. 
563, sp. 10, young. 
MELANERPES ER YTHRO CEPHALUS.— 
See vol. i. p. 146, male. 
The state in wliicli the common red-headed woodpecker is 
here represented, has given rise to a nominal species ; and it 
is in fact so difficult to recognise for that bird, that we have 
thought proper, after the example of Vieillot, to give an ex- 
act figure of it. We feel no diffidence in affirming, that in 
this, through the exertions of Messrs Rider and Lawson, we 
have fully succeeded ; and it will perhaps be allowed to be the 
best representation of a bird ever engraved. We have nothing 
to add to Wilson’s excellent account of the manners of this very 
common species, and, therefore, shall limit ourselves to the 
description of the young as represented. 
The young red-headed woodpecker is nine and a half inches 
long, and seventeen inches in extent. The bill is short and 
robust, being but one-eighth more than an inch in length ; the 
upper mandible has the ridge slightly curved ; the bill is horn 
colour, whitish at base beneath ; the setaceous feathers cover- 
