. Key to North American birds; 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fig. 128. Woodijei-kn-. wing 8^-10; tail 6-7. North America, anywhere, in heavy tim- ber. AViLS., iv, 27, pi. 29, f. 2; NuTT., i, 567; AuD., iv, 226, pi. 257; Bd., 107. . pileatus. 131. Genus PIOUS Linnaeus. *.;s*All tlie followhig species are black-and-white, the J with red on the head ; and all but the first have numerous, small, r
. Key to North American birds; 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fig. 128. Woodijei-kn-. wing 8^-10; tail 6-7. North America, anywhere, in heavy tim- ber. AViLS., iv, 27, pi. 29, f. 2; NuTT., i, 567; AuD., iv, 226, pi. 257; Bd., 107. . pileatus. 131. Genus PIOUS Linnaeus. *.;s*All tlie followhig species are black-and-white, the J with red on the head ; and all but the first have numerous, small, round, white spots on the quills. * Bod^' not banded, streaked, nor spotted. While-Iieaded Woodjwcker. Uniform black; whole head white, in the $ with a scarlet nuchal band ; a large patch of white on the wing, commonly resolved into a number of blotches; about 9 ; wing 5 ; tail 3-^. Mountains of California, Oregon and Washington. Cass., Journ. Phila. Acad. 1853, 257, pi. 22; Bd., 96; Ell., pi. 24; Coop., 382 albolauvatus. ** Spotted and crosswise banded, but not streaked. Red-cochaded Woodpecker. Head black on top, with a large silky white auricular patch embracing the eye and extending on the side of the neck, bordered above in the ^ by a scarlet stripe 7ioi meeting its fellow on the nape ; nasal feathers and those on the side of the under jaw white ; black of the crown connected across the lores with a black stripe running from the corner of the bill down the side of the throat and neck to be dissipated on the side of the breast in black. Fig. 129. lied-cocJinikul W^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Salem [Mass. ] Naturalists' Agency; New York, Dodd and Mead; [etc. , etc. ,]
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