. 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. 446. S. va'rius. (Lat. varius, variegated. Fig. 336.) Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. ^â¢. Crown crimson, bordered all around with black; chin, throat, and breast black, en
. 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. 446. S. va'rius. (Lat. varius, variegated. Fig. 336.) Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. ^â¢. Crown crimson, bordered all around with black; chin, throat, and breast black, enclosing a large crimson patch on the former (in the $ ; in the ? this patch white) ; sides of head with a white line starting from the nasal feathers and dividing the black of the throat from a trans-ocular black stripe, this separated from the black of the crown by a white post-ocular stripe; all these stripes fi-equently yellowish. Under parts dingy yellow, brownish and with sagittate dusky marks on the sides. Back variegated with black and yellowish. Wings black with a large oblique white bar on the coverts; the quills vrith numerous paired white spots on the edges of both Tail black, most of the feathers white-edged, the inner webs of the middle pair, and the upper coverts, mostly white. BiU brownish; feet greenish-plumbeous; iris brown. Young birds lack the definite black areas of the head and breast, and the crimson throat-patch, these parts being mottled gray; but in any plumage the bird is recognized by its yellowness, different from what is seen in any other Eastern species, and the broad white vnng-bar, to say nothing of the generic characters. Length ; extent ; wing ; tail Eastern N. Am., abundant in most U. S. localities, resident in the South, migratory northerly; N. to 61° at least; W. to Dakota; S. into Central Am. and W. I. The hyoid bones ^â ) are the shortest of those of any N. Am. species ; the tongue is protru
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