Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 5. Male. Fig. 6. Female.
Male with the upper part of the head and hind neck light
greyish-brown; forehead and a band over the eye dull red; sides and
fore part of neck ash-grey, with an oblong patch of bright carmine on
each side of the throat; back, scapulars, and secondaries light
reddish-brown, transversely spotted with black; rump white; upper
tail-coverts black, barred with white; primaries blackish-brown,
tail-feathers black, their shafts vermilion; lower parts
reddish-white, spotted with black, of which there is a semilunar patch
on the fore part of the breast; lower wing-coverts, and inner webs of
quills of roseate tints; lower surface of quills and tail-feathers
orange-red, inclining to vermilion, the tail black toward the end.
_Male_, 13-1/2, wing, 6-10/12. _Female_, 13.
Rocky Mountains, Columbia River, and northward to the Saskatchewan.
Abundant. Migratory.
Colaptes mexicanus, Swains. Synop. Birds of Mex. Phil. Mag. N.
84.
Colaptes mexicanus, Red-shafted Woodpecker, Swains. & Rich. F.
Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 315.
Red-shafted Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 603.
Red-shafted Woodpecker, Picus mexicanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
ii. p. 314.