. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. PICTDjE : WOODVKCKKItS. 491. ("OL- A narrow distinct tollar baek of ncclt, and breast, Ixiary Idnish-cray, trradnnlly i)rit;htt>n- 'm\r Ix'liind on the uider parts to intense rose-red or lake, delicately ipencilled in liaiv lines with the hoary-gray. X'l white on winirs or tail, their under surfaces simply black.
. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. PICTDjE : WOODVKCKKItS. 491. ("OL- A narrow distinct tollar baek of ncclt, and breast, Ixiary Idnish-cray, trradnnlly i)rit;htt>n- 'm\r Ix'liind on the uider parts to intense rose-red or lake, delicately ipencilled in liaiv lines with the hoary-gray. X'l white on winirs or tail, their under surfaces simply black. Hill blackish; feet |t;reenish-]iIunibeons. Iris brown. Lengtii ; extent ; wing '); ;i1 ; bill Young: Little lustre at first, but this soon appears, before any red. Little or no trace of the hoary c(dlar or crimson mask; face sooty-black ; throat and breast fuscous and gray, chang- ing on the belly to sooty-black, tinged or slushed here and there with red. 'J'he hoary and lake-red are established with the feathers that are of the bristly charac- ter above described. A remarkable bird, inhabiting wooded mountainous parts of the West, especially the piiu'-belt, Kocky Mts. to the I'acific, U. S. and IJritish C(d- umbia. It is found with Clarke's crow and Steller's jay ; wild and wary, liki' our Fio. ;M3. - »- Woodpecker, rwluced. (Slieippunl .lul. Hylotomus ; keeps high up in the trees, Nichols sc.) and in flying looks more like a crow than a woodjiecker. Its aerial excursions arc very con- s)iicuous. Nest and eggs as usual ; size of eggs X 158. COLAP'TES. (Gr. Ko\atrrr)i, lolnptea, a chisel, hammer.) Gilded Woodi'ECKKRs. Fmck- Eus. Hill about as hmg as head, slender and weak for this family, without any lateral ridges or bevelling, pointed without truncation, culnien and commissure curved, gonys nearly straight, only about half as long as culmcn, nostrils not concealed by the slight nasal tufts; culmen and
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