RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 
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RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. — PICUS QUERULUS. 
Plate XV. Fig. 1. 
Peak's Museum, No. 2027. 
DENDROCOPUS QUERULUS.— Koch. 
Picus querulus, Bonap. Synop. p. 46. 
This new species I first discovered in the pine woods of 
North Carolina. The singularity of its voice, which greatly 
resembles the chirping of young nestlings, and the red streak 
on the side of its head, suggested the specific name I have 
given it. It also extends through South Carolina and Georgia, 
at least as far as the Altamaha river. Observing the first 
specimen I found to be so slightly marked with red, I sus- 
pected it to be a young bird, or imperfect in its plumage ; but, 
the great numbers I afterwards shot, satisfied me that this is a 
peculiarity of the species. It appeared exceedingly restless, 
active, and clamorous ; and every where I found its manners 
the same. 
This bird seems to be an intermediate link between the 
Red-bellied and the Hairy Woodpecker, represented in Plates 
VII. and IX. It has the back of the former, and the white 
belly and spotted neck of the latter ; but wants the breadth 
of red in both, and is less than either. A preserved specimen 
has been deposited in the museum of Philadelphia. 
This Woodpecker is seven inches and a half long, and 
thirteen broad ; the upper part of the head is black ; the back 
barred with twelve white transversely semicircular lines, and 
as many of black, alternately; the cheeks and sides of the 
neck are white ; whole lower parts the same ; from the lower 
mandible, a list of black passes towards the shoulder of the 
wing, where it is lost in small black spots on each side of the 
breast ; the wings are black, spotted with white ; the four 
middle tail-feathers, black ; the rest white, spotted with black ; 
rump, black, variegated with white ; the vent, white, spotted 
