. 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. Birds; Birds; 1887. 482 SYSTE3IA TIC SYNOPSIS. — PICABI2E — PICIF0B3IES. 435. 436. P. s. nut'talli. (To Tlios. Nuttall. Fig. 332.) Nitttall's Woodpeckee. Similar ; rather larg
. 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. Birds; Birds; 1887. 482 SYSTE3IA TIC SYNOPSIS. — PICABI2E — PICIF0B3IES. 435. 436. P. s. nut'talli. (To Tlios. Nuttall. Fig. 332.) Nitttall's Woodpeckee. Similar ; rather larger ; more M-liite, this jircvailiug on the back over the black bars ; nape chieiiy white ; nasal tufts white; lateral tail-feathers, especially, sparsely f}V imperfectly barred. The Californian coast race,, Jifferiug decidedly in some respects, and constantly ; but connected with general series of ladder-backs. Barring restricted to the back proper, the hinrl neck being black, succeeded anteriorly by a white space adjoining the red, wanting in scalaris, where red joins black. Red chiefly confined to the occiput, the rest of the crown black, spotted with white. Lateral tail-feathers white, not barred throughout, having but 1-3 black bars, all beyond their mid- dles, all but the terminal one of these broken. White postocular stripe running into the white nuchal area, but cut off from the white of tlie shoulders. White maxillary stripe enclosed in Pig, 332. - Nuttall's Woodrecker, nat. size, ^ack as in scalaris, but this black continuous with (From Elliot.) the cervical black patch, which is not the case in scrdaris. No suioky-brown state of the under parts observed. P. s. lucasa'nus. (Of Cape St. Lucas.) St. Lucas Woodpeckek. A local race of scalaris. Smoky-brown nasal tufts and style of head and back as in that species. Lateral taU-feathers imperfectly barred and only toward end, as in nutfnlli. Reil of crown of ^ broken up anteriorly. Peculiar in disproportionate size of bi
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