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Title: Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Subjects: Birds -- North America Birds -- Collection and preservation
Publisher: Boston, D. Estes and Company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fio. 307(From Elliot.) NuttiiUs Wooilpccker, nat. size. 584 SYSTEM A TIC S YNOPSIS. — PICARI.E - PICI.
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Fig. 398. — Hairy Woodpecker. (From The Osprey.) PICIDyE — PICIN.E: WOODPECKERS. 585 or imperfectly barred. The Californian coast form, N. to Oregon, differing decidedly in somerespects, and constantly. Barring restricted to back proper; iiind neck black, succeeded ante-riorly by a white space adjoining the red, wanting in scalaris, where red joins black. Redchiefly confined to occiput; rest of crown black, sprinkled with white. Lateral tail-featherswhite, not barred thn>ug)i()Ut, having but 1-.3 black bars, all beyond their middles, all but theterminal one of these broken. White postocular stripe running into white nuchal area, butcut off from white of shoulders. White maxillary stripe enclosed in black as in scalaris, buttliis black continuous with the cervical black j)atch, which is not tlie case in scalaris. Nosmoky-brown state of under parts observed. Picus scalaris nuttalli of all previous eds. ofKey, now raised to specific rank ; Driiohates nuttallii Ridgw. Proc. U. S. X

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