Plate CCCLXXXIX.
Upper part of the head, hind neck, and a band on each side of the
neck, glossy black; a large patch on the side of the head and neck
white; back black, barred with white; wings brownish-black, spotted
with white, there being eight spots on the outer, and six on the inner
webs of the longest quills; middle tail-feathers black, outer four on
each side white, with black bars; lower parts white, sides of the neck
and body with oblong black spots. Male with a small carmine line
behind the eye.
_Male_, 8-1/2, 14-1/2. _Female_, 7-3/8, 13-1/4.
From Texas to New Jersey, along the Atlantic districts. Common. In the
interior to Lower Mississippi. Resident.
Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Picus querulus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
ii. p. 103.
Picus querulus, Bonap. Syn. p. 46.
Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 577.
Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Picus querulus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 12.