Not figured.
Third and fourth toes about equal, hind toe very small; an occipital
crest of elongated near feathers; upper part of the head carmine,
inclining to scarlet; a narrow dusky line from the nostril to the eye;
a patch, including the eyelids and ear-coverts, leaden-grey; a narrow
band down the hind part of the neck, gradually enlarging, the back,
wings, and tail, deep black; a band from the nostrils descending
obliquely over the side of the head, passing backwards and behind the
ear, then much enlarged, and running down the side of the neck to the
shoulders, a large oblique patch at the commencement of the wing,
including the outer scapulars, the small feathers on the edge of the
wing under the alula, the lower wing-coverts, and the inner webs of
the quills for about half the length, pure white; an elongated crimson
patch at the base of the lower jaw; chin yellowish-white,
longitudinally streaked with dusky; the rest of the fore neck and part
of the breast black; the lower parts and sides brownish-white,
transversely barred with black.
_Male_, 15, wing, 7-2/12.
Columbia River.
Picus lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat v. i. p. 174.
Lineated Woodpecker, Picus lineatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
315.