BIRDS-PICIDAE-MELANERPES TORQUATUS. 
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Specimens vary in the gloss on the black of the upper parts, which is sometimes green, 
sometimes bluish. 
The young male is exactly like the adult; the only evidence of immaturity being in the 
shorter and more curved bill, as well as the smaller size. 
Specimens from New Leon are much smaller than those from California, as shown by a male, 
(4033,) in which the wing is half an inch shorter than in California specimens. Many speci¬ 
mens have a few red tipped feathers in the posterior edge of the pectoral collar, but it is not 
found in all. Specimens from the Coppermines are about the size of Californian. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orign’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Extent. 
Wing. 
4464 
Umpqua valley, O. T. 
Suisun village, Cal... 
-, 1855 
Lt. Williamson 
Dr. Newberry. 
4463 
_.do.__ 
_do_ 
6495 
3 
Petaluma, Cal_ 
May —,1856 
July —, 1856 
E. Samuels_ 
156 
5496 
9 
.-..-.do......._ 
_do .„»«_ 
157 
5497 
3 
_do_.. 
66 
6153 
San Francisco..... 
R. D. Cutts 
4211 
..-.-.do_,.__ 
5955 
Santa Clara, Cal 
Nov. —, 1855 
5956 
6150 
Q 
3 
_do_..... 
Lt. Williamson._ 
Dr. Heermann. 
6151 
6152 
3 
4955 
San Jose, Cal_ 
4606 
Santa Isabel, Cal.__ 
Dec. 26,1854 
Major Emory 
Mr. Schott_ 
6147 
Los Nogales, Mexico . 
Copper Mines, N M 
June —,1856 
___.do_ 
Dr. Kennedy . 
Mr. Clark_ 
6149 
__do_ 
6148 
6145 
Fort Thorn, New Mex. 
New Leon, Mexico 
4033 
3 
-,1853 
162 
8.75 
16. 
5. 25 
4034 
3 
__ do 
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MELANERPES TORQUATUS, Bonap. 
Lewis’s Woodpecker. 
Picus torquatus, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 31 ; pi. xx. —Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, No. 82 .—Aud. Orn. Biog. 
V, 1839, 176 ; pi. 416.— Ib. Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 280 ; pi. 272. 
Melanerpes torquatus, Bp. Consp. 1850, 115.— Heermann. J. A. N. Sc. Phil. 2d ser. II, 1853, 270.— Newberry, 
Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, 90 ; in P. R. R. Surv. VI, 1857. 
Pilus m out anus, Ord, in Guthrie’s Geog. 2d Am. ed. II, 1815, 316. 
Picus lewisii, Drapiez. (Gray.) 
Sp. Ch.—F eathers on the under parts bristle-like. Fourth quill longest; then third and fifth. Above dark glossy green. 
Breast, lower part of the neck and a narrow collar all round hoary grayish white. Around the base of the bill and sides ot 
the head to behind the eyes, dark crimson. Belly blood red, streaked finely with hoary whitish. Wings and tail entirely uniform 
dark glossy green. Female with the markings more obscure. Length about 19 J inches ; wing 6£. 
Hah .—Western America from Black hills to Pacific. 
