Plate CCCCXVII. Fig. 8. Male. Fig. 9. Female.
Fourth toe considerably longer than third; fourth quill longest, fifth
longer than second; bristly feathers over the nostrils dull yellow,
with the tips black; upper part of the head and hind neck glossy
black; over the eye a band of white, continuous with a transverse
scarlet band on the occiput; a black band in the loral space continued
behind the eye over the auriculars, and joining the black of the hind
neck; beneath is a band of white, from the angle of the mouth, curving
backward below the middle of the neck, but without meeting the other;
then a band of black from the base of the lower mandible, and
continuous with the black of the hind neck and shoulders; upper parts
black, the quills tinged with brown; feather along the middle of the
back largely tipped with white; quills, excepting the inner three,
marked with small roundish spots, of which there are five on the outer
and four on the inner web of the four longest quills, while on the
outer there is only an elongated spot on the inner web, and on the
next one spot on the outer and three on the inner; four middle
tail-feathers black, the next black, with a small part of the inner
web, and a large portion of the outer toward the end, white; the rest
white, with the base black; the outermost small feathers almost
entirely white; lower parts brownish-white. Female wants the red
occipital band. This species is distinguishable from all the other
spotted species, by having no white spots on the wing-coverts.
_Male_, 9; wing, 5-2/12.
Columbia River. Rare.
Harris's Woodpecker, Picus Harrisii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
191.