Plate CCCCXVII. Adult.
Bill about the length of the head, with the outlines considerably
arched, the tips acute, and not laterally worn; upper parts black,
lower white, with a tinge of brown, the sides very faintly barred with
dusky; tufts covering the nostrils white; on the anterior part of the
top of the head some feathers largely tipped with yellow; a band of
white over the eye; loral space and a broad band behind the eye black;
feathers along the middle of the back tipped with white; wings spotted
with white; six spots on the outer, and four on the inner webs of the
longer primaries; four middle tail-feathers black, the next with the
tip obliquely white, that colour enlarging on the rest, so as to
include almost the whole of the outer feathers.
_Adult_, 7, 13-1/2.
Louisiana.
Picus Auduboni, Audubon's Woodpecker, Trudeau, Journ. Acad.
Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, v. vii. p. 404.
Audubon's Woodpecker, Picus Auduboni, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
194.