. 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, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . 484 SYSTE3IATIC .SYNOPSIS. —PICAMIA^: — IUIFOliMES. 412. X. albolarvatus. (Liit. albo, with wliitt, l^htits, mankod.) WiiiTE-llEADEn WooD-IKCKKK. Hody not banded, streaked, uor spo
. 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, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . 484 SYSTE3IATIC .SYNOPSIS. —PICAMIA^: — IUIFOliMES. 412. X. albolarvatus. (Liit. albo, with wliitt, l^htits, mankod.) WiiiTE-llEADEn WooD-IKCKKK. Hody not banded, streaked, uor spotted. Uiiifunu Mack ; whole head white, in the^ with a scarlet nuchal band ; a large patcli of white on the win^, formed by white spaces onboth webs of the primaries, divided only by their black shafts; on the secondaries commonlyresolved into a nimiber of bh)tclies. IJill and feet i)luinbeous-blackish. Iris red. 9 withoutthe red on the nape. Length )..jO; extent ().-25 ; wing ; tail of (alift)rnia, Oregon and AVashingtou, common in pine woods. A remarkablespecies. uni(pie in coloration, and still more peculiar in the little extensibility of the tongue,which can be pulled out scarcely an inch ; that of P. riUosus, for instance, extending 2 inchesor more beyond the end of the bill. 153. /■■^^mT^^. ^j. L 1^ Fig. 335.—European Tliree-tood Woodpecker(7icot(/«is tritiaciyhts), J iiat. size; liardly distiiiguisliable in tbecut from /. americriiius. (From Brehm.) PICOIDES (Lat. j;/c?i:o Woodpeckers. Three-toed : the hallux (1st toe) absent, th(> 4th toe reversed as usualin the fanuly. Hill as in Picits proper, about as long as the head, stout, straight, with bevelledend and lateral ridges, and nasal tufts hiding the nostrils ; very broad and much depressed atbase, with the lateral ridges very low down, in most of their length close to and parallel withcommissure; nostrils very near commissure ; gonys about as long as from nostrils to
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