Plate CCCCXVII. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
Fourth toe slightly longer than third; fourth quill longest, third
longer than fifth; tufts of bristly feathers over the nostrils dull
yellow; upper part of head scarlet; forehead and occiput black; a band
of white over the eye; a black band from the bill to the eye,
continued behind it over the auriculars, and joining the black of the
hind neck; beneath this a band of white from the angle of the mouth,
curving backwards below the middle of the neck, so as almost to meet
its fellow behind; then a band of black from the base of the lower
mandible, and continuous with the black of the shoulders; upper parts
black; feathers along the middle of the back tipped with white;
wing-coverts and quills spotted with the same, there being on the four
longest primaries seven spots on the outer, and four on the inner web,
on most of the secondaries five on each web, but on the outer quill
only one patch on each web, and on the second four spots on the outer,
and three on the inner web; four middle tail-feathers glossy black,
the next black on the inner web, and on the greater part of the outer
toward the base, the rest black only at the base, the two outer being
almost entirely white; lower parts white, tinged with grey, and a
little red, the sides faintly mottled with dusky grey.
_Male_, 9-2/12; wing, 4-((10-1/2)/12).
A pair found at Toronto, Upper Canada.
Maria's Woodpecker, Picus Martinæ, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
181.