Plate CXXXII. Male and Female.
Three-toed, with the upper parts glossy bluish-black, the lower white,
the sides and lower wing-coverts transversely barred with black; tufts
of bristly feathers black; crown of the head saffron-yellow; a white
line from behind the eye, a band of the same from the base of the
upper mandible to beneath the ear-coverts, succeeded by a black band;
inner webs of all the quills and outer webs of the primaries spotted
with white, there being seven spots on the outer, and five on the
inner webs of the three longest; four middle tail-feathers black, the
next with an oblique band of white, the rest black only at the base,
except the outermost, of which nearly all the inner web is of that
colour. Female without yellow on the head.
_Male_, 10-1/2, 16.
From the northern parts of New York to the Fur Countries, as well as
along the eastern declivities of the Rocky Mountains. Rather common.
Partially migratory.
Picus tridactylus, Bonap. Syn. p. 46.
Northern Three-toed Woodpecker, Picus tridactylus, Bonap.
Amer. Orn. v. ii. p. 14.
Picus (apternus) arcticus, Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker,
Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 313.
Northern Three-toed Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 578.
Three-toed Woodpecker, Picus tridactylus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
ii. p. 198.