Plate CCCCXVII. Fig. 7. Male.
Fourth toe considerably longer than third; fourth quill longest, fifth
longer than second; bristly feathers over the nostrils dull yellow;
upper part of head and hind neck glossy black; over the eye a band of
white, continuous with a transverse band of scarlet on the occiput,
usually interrupted in the middle; a black band from near the bill to
the eye, continued behind it over the auriculars, and joining the back
of the hind neck; beneath this a white band from the angle of the
mouth, curving backwards below the middle of the neck, so as to meet
the other behind; then a narrow band of black from the base of the
lower mandible and continuous with the black of the shoulders; upper
part of the body, wings, and tail, black, feathers along the middle of
the back tipped with white; wing-coverts, the anterior excepted, and
quills spotted with the same, there being on the four longest
primaries seven spots on the outer, and five on the inner webs, on
most of the secondaries five on each web, but on the outer quill only
one patch on each web, and on the second three spots on the outer, and
four on the inner web; four middle tail-feathers glossy black, the
rest black towards the base, that colour gradually diminishing, so
that the outermost is almost entirely white; lower parts white.
Extremely similar to Picus villosus, but always much larger.
_Male_, 10-1/2, 17-3/4.
From the northern parts of New York to the Fur Countries. Common.
Migratory in winter to New York.
Picus canadensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 437.
Picus (Dendrocopus) villosus, Hairy Woodpecker, Swains. &
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 305.
Canadian Woodpecker, Picus canadensis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 188.