. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 251 I. RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. {Ficm querulus.) PLATE 1. Pede's Museum, No. 2027. DENDROCOPUS Picus querulus, Bonap. Synop. p. 46. This new species I first discovered in the pine woods of North Carolina. The singularity of its voice, which greatly resembles the chirping of young nestlings, and the red streak on the side of its head, suggested the specific name I have given it
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 251 I. RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. {Ficm querulus.) PLATE 1. Pede's Museum, No. 2027. DENDROCOPUS Picus querulus, Bonap. Synop. p. 46. This new species I first discovered in the pine woods of North Carolina. The singularity of its voice, which greatly resembles the chirping of young nestlings, and the red streak on the side of its head, suggested the specific name I have given it. It also extends through South Carolina and Georgia, at least as fiir as the Altamaha river. Observing the first specimen I found to be so slightly marked with red, I suspected it to be a young bird, or imperfect in its plumage; but the great numbers I afterwards shot satisfied me that this is a pecu- liarity of the species. It appeared exceedingly restless, active, and clamorous ; and everywhere I found its manners the same. This bird seems to be an intermediate link between the red-bellied and the hairy woodpecker, represented in Plates VII. and IX. It' j the back of the former, and the white belly and spotted neck of the latter; but wants the breadth of red in both, r^nd is less than either. A preserved specimen has been deposited in the Museum of Philadelphia. This woodpecker is seven inches and a half long, and thirteen broad; the upper part of the head is black; the back barred with twelve white transversely semicircular lines, and as many of black, alternately ; the cheeks and sides of the neck are white; whole lower parts the same; from the lower mandible, a list of black passes towards the shoulder of the wing, whore it is lost in small black spots on each side of the breafifr "i)«> wings are black, spotted with white ; the four middle taii-,. thers, black; the rest white, spotted with black; rump, black, variegated with white; the veut, white, spotted. Pleas
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