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YOUNG RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 
FICUS ERYTHROCEPHJ1LUS. 
Plate XIV. Fig. 3. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, Vol. I, p. 142, PI. 9, Fig. 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, PI. 3, Fig. 1 . Id. 8to. II, p. 50. Gmel. Syst. I, 
p. 429, Sp. 7. Borowsk, JWtf. IJ, p. 136, Sp. 4. Lath. Ind. p. 227, Sp. 9, adult. 
Vie ill. 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, Catesby, Car. I, PI. 20, adult. 
Picus capite colloque rubris, Klein, Av. p. 28, Sp. 12, adult. 
Picus capite toto rubro, Kalm, It. Ill, PI. 43, adult. 
Picchio di testa rossa, Storia degli TJcc. PI. 170, adult. 
Pic noir ci domino rouge, Buff. Ois. VII, p. 55, adult. 
Pic de Virginie, Buff. PI. enl. 117, adult. 
Pic tricolor, Vieill. 1 . c. adult and young. 
Red-headed Woodpecker, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 160. Kalm, Trav. ( Angl .) II, p. 86. 
Lath. Synop. II, p. 561, adult. 
White-rumped Woodpecker, Lath. Syn. II, p. 563, Sp. 10, young. 
The state in which 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 exact 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 repre¬ 
sentation of a bird ever engraved. We have nothing to add to 
Wilson’s excellent account of the manners of this very common 
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