RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 167 
genus ; eye, dark hazel. The female wants the red on 
the hind head, having that part white ; and the breast 
and belly are of a dirty white. 
This, and the two former species, are generally deno- 
minated sap-suckers . They have also several other 
provincial appellations, equally absurd, which it may, 
perhaps, be more proper to suppress than to sanction 
by repeating. 
46 . PICUS QUEIlULUSj WILSON. RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 
WILSON, PLATE XV. FIG. I. 
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 suspected 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. 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. 
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 semi- 
circular 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 
