Plate CCCCXV. Fig. 3. Male. Fig. 4. Female.
Male with the upper part of the head and hind neck bright carmine; the
back and scapulars transversely banded with black and white; the rump
and tail-coverts with the white predominating; primaries black, with a
band of white; tail black, with the inner webs of the middle, and both
webs of the outer barred with white; lower parts yellowish-white,
abdomen red; lower wing and tail-coverts white, spotted with dusky.
Female similar, but with the top of the head ash-grey and with less
red on the abdomen.
_Male_, 7-3/4, 15-3/4. _Female_, 8, 14-1/2.
Breeds from Kentucky in the West, and from Maryland to Nova Scotia and
Canada. Abundant in winter in all the Southern States, from Carolina
to Texas, and especially in the Floridas.
Red-bellied Woodpecker, Picus carolinus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
i. p. 113.
Picus carolinus, Bonap. Syn. p. 45.
Red-bellied Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 572.
Red-bellied Woodpecker, Picus carolinus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 169.