Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
Bill as long as the head; fourth toe considerably longer than third;
fourth and fifth quills longest and equal; bristly feathers over the
nostrils dull yellow, tipped with black; 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 divided in the
middle; 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 to meet its fellow behind; then a
black band from the base of the lower mandible; upper parts black,
tinged with brown behind; feathers along the middle of the back,
tipped with white; wing-coverts, the anterior excepted, and quills
spotted with white, there being on the four longest primaries seven on
the outer and five 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, two spots on the outer and three on the inner; four middle
tail-feathers glossy black, the rest black only towards the base;
lower parts white, tinged with dull green on the fore neck and breast,
the sides with blackish-grey. Female without red on the head.
_Male_, 8-3/4, 14-1/2. _Female_, 8-1/2, 15.
Breeds from Texas to New Hampshire, Kentucky, and Valley of the
Mississippi. Common. Resident.
Hairy Woodpecker, Picus villosus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p.
150.
Picus villosus, Bonap. Syn. p. 46.
Hairy Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 575.
Hairy Woodpecker, Picus villosus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
164.