Plate XIII. Male and Female.
Fourth toe longer, considerably shorter than third; an occipital crest
of elongated linear feathers; general colour black glossed with blue,
upper part of head, and a band from the lower mandible, deep carmine;
loral space and a broad band from the eye to the occiput,
greyish-black; a narrow band from the eye margining the red of the
crest, a band from the base of the upper mandible, down to the side of
the neck, the throat, axillars, lower wing-coverts, and bases of the
quills, white. Female similar, with the fore part of the head dusky,
and the red on the cheek substituted by blackish-brown.
_Male_, 18, 28.
From Texas to the Columbia River, and along the Atlantic coast, as
well as in the interior, to the Fur Countries. More abundant in the
south. Resident everywhere.
Pileated Woodpecker, Picus pileatus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv.
p. 27.
Picus pileatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 44.
Picus (Dryotomus) pileatus, Pileated Woodpecker, Swains. &
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 304.
Pileated Woodpecker or Log-cock, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 567.
Pileated Woodpecker, Picus pileatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p.
74; v. v. p. 533.