Plate CCCCXVII. Fig. 3. Male. Fig. 4. Female.
Three-toed, with the upper parts deep glossy-black, the head with blue
reflections, the back and wings tinged with brown; tufts over nostrils
dull yellow; anterior part of head pale yellow, spotted with white; a
band of white, with small dusky lines, from the angle of the mouth to
the occiput; the back transversely banded with white; 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 quills; four middle tail-feathers black, the next
white at the end, the rest white, unless at the base, but the
outermost banded with black. Female with the head black, streaked with
white.
_Male_, 9; wing, 4-5/12.
From Lake Superior to the Arctic Sea. Abundant. Resident.
Picus hirsutus, Vieill. Ois. de l'Amer. v. ii. p. 124.
Picus (Apternus) tridactylus, Common Three-toed Woodpecker,
Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 311.
Common Three-toed Woodpecker, Picus hirsutus, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. v. p. 184.
*** Bill straight, with the angles obsolete, and the upper
outline somewhat arched.