. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. — PICUS QUERULUS. — Fig. 64. Peak's Museum, No. 20^ DE^TDROCOPUS QUERULUS,—Koch. Pi'cus 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, suggi'sted the specific name I have given it. It also extends throu
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. — PICUS QUERULUS. — Fig. 64. Peak's Museum, No. 20^ DE^TDROCOPUS QUERULUS,—Koch. Pi'cus 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, suggi'sted the specific name I have given it. It also extends through Sonti Carolina and Georgia, at least as far as the Altamaha River. Observing tlie first specimen I found to be so slightly marked with red, ; suspected it to bo a young bird, or imperfect in its plumage; but tho great numbors I atlorwards shot, satisfied me thnt this is a peculiarity of the species. It appeared exceedingly restless, active, and clamorous; and every where I found its manners the same. This bird seems to be an intermediate link between the Red-bellied and the Hairy Woodpecker, represented in Nos. 20 and 37. It has the back of the former, and the white belly and spotted neck of the latter; but waiivs tlK> breadth of red in both, and is less than either. A preserved specimen lias been deposited in the Museum of Phila- delphia. 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 nock are white ; whole lower parts, the eamo; from the lower mandible, a list of black passes towards the shoulder of the wintr, where it is lost in small black spots on each side of the breast; the wings are black, spotted with white; the four middle tail-foathcrs, black; the rest white, spotted with black; rump, black, variegated with white; the vent, white, spotted with black ; the hairs that co
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