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being banded with white, gives to that part a waved 
appearance ; the under parts are more thickly waved 
with black : six, instead of four, of the middle tail- 
feathers, are almost wholly black, the outer of the six 
having only two or three whitish spots on the outer web. 
The remaining parts, with due allowance, are similar 
to the adult. 
The young male gradually assumes the yellow, which 
is at first but little extended, and of a pale lemon colour, 
through which are yet for some time seen the white 
dots attributed to the female. She indeed has them 
very conspicuous in youth, as they are not confounded 
with any yellow, but loses them entirely as she advances 
to the adult state. 
7 . FICUS ERYTHROCEPHALUS , LINNAEUS. 
YOUNG RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE XIV. FIG. III. 
We have nothing to add to Wilson’s excellent account 
of the manners of this very common species, and, there- 
fore, shall limit ourselves to the description of the young. 
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 covering the 
nostrils are very short, and not thick, rufous gray, 
tipped with black; the whole head, neck, and upper 
parts of the breast, (which are red in the adult) are 
blackish, each feather broadly edged with whitish, 
giving the throat the appearance of being whitish, 
streaked with blackish ; the auriculars are plain dusky 
black ; from the breast beneath all is dingy white, the 
feathers of the breast and lower tail-coverts having 
dusky shafts; the back and scapulars are black, the 
feathers being margined with whitish gray ; the rump 
and upper tail-coverts pure white; the wings are five 
