. 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. 194 " riOIDiE, AVOODPKCKEES. GEN. 132, 133. ^P Var. HARRisii. Exactly like t', excepting fewer wiug-spots ; generally mome on the coverts and inner quills ; with specimens enough we can see the spots disap- pear one by one. Generally white below, but in some regions smoky-gray (a thing not observed in Eastern birds, but apparently
. 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. 194 " riOIDiE, AVOODPKCKEES. GEN. 132, 133. ^P Var. HARRisii. Exactly like t', excepting fewer wiug-spots ; generally mome on the coverts and inner quills ; with specimens enough we can see the spots disap- pear one by one. Generally white below, but in some regions smoky-gray (a thing not observed in Eastern birds, but apparently due, sometimes at least, to soiling with carbonaceous matter). Eocky Mountains to the Pacific. Aud., iv, 242, pi. 261 (dark- bellied) ; NuTT.,i, 2d ed. 627; Bd., 87 ; Coop., 375. P. liyloscopus Cabanis. ft Usually 6-7 long ; outer tail feathers barred \\ ^""^Sikv\\,\«».!^$ with black aud white. *''' '"''^^Hffi^SL Doicny Woodpevlier. Exactly like P. v n II' \\^^\V^mS^^^^ t;2'So6-i(s, except in the above rcsisects; wing ;;i^ Dou-ny Woodpecker. ^^^^^^ 4. jjj^ ^^^Jg,. 3. I^JH .ibout § J wbole foot 1^. Eastern North America, abundant in orchards, aud all wooded places. WiLS., i, 153, pi. 9 ; Nutt., i, 576 ; Aud., iv, 249, pi. 26^ ; Bd., 89. P. merldionalis Swains., F. ii, 308 (small southern race) ; P. medianus Id., ibid. 308 pubescens. ,>^ Var. GAiRDNERii. Bearing the same relation to P. piibescens, that harrisii does to P. villosus, and inhabiting the same regions ; the wing spots few or wanting on the inner quills and the coverts, the belly smokj'-gray in some localities. Aud., iv, 252 ; Bd., 91, pi. 85 ; Coop., 377. P. meridionalis Nutt., i, 2d ed. 690. 132. Genus PICOIDES Lacepede. *.»* Three-toed ; the hallux absent. Crown with a yellow patch in the ^ ; sides of head striped, of body barred, with black and white ; under parts otherwise white ; quills with white spots ; tail feathers unbarred, the outer white, the central black. Length 8-9 ; wi
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