Dryobates pubescens medianus. 
Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer¬ 
tain North Am, Bbe. Wm. Brewster. 
94. Picus pubescens. 
First plumage: male. Forehead and nape thickly spotted with white. 
C^own deep scarlet; no red on nape ; rest of upper parts marked as in the 
adult, but the black duller. Beneath ashy-white, thickly streaked on the 
sides of the breast and body with dusky ; on the sides of the abdomen 
these dusky markings assume the character of broad though poorly defined 
transverse bars. From a specimen in my cabinet collected at Upton, Me., 
August 14,1874. Several other young males show a considerable amount 
of variation in the character and extent of the dusky markings beneath. 
In one or two the streaks are nearly continuous across the breast and abdo¬ 
men. A very young male (Upton, August 1, 1874) has the forehead and 
nape dull, unspotted black, and a decided greenish-yellow tinge to the 
white both above and below. 
First plumage: female. Forehead slightly spotted with wdiite ; crown- 
patch scarlet, exactly as in the male. Nape unspotted. Beneath brownish- 
white, barred obscurely upon the flanks and spotted continuously across 
the breast with dusky. From a specimen in my collection obtained by 
Mr. W. D. Scott, at Coalburgh, W. Va., July 25, 1872. Another speci¬ 
men before me (Upton, Me., August 13, 1874) has the forehead and occi¬ 
put, with a narrow median line connecting them, thickly spotted with 
white, but no scarlet. Still a third, in the collection of Mr. C. J. May¬ 
nard, has the crown irregularly patched with scarlet feathers. The sex of 
all these specimens was determined by the most careful dissection. 
Bull. N.O.O. 3, Oct., 1878, p, • 
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