quartan, is of .a blackish lead-colour; bluish white at the >base,'df
the 1’oyer mSiridible; it; is very broad at ha-sb, cuneiform arid
obtuse at tip, and iri^u/depres«^®throughout, tm/ridgO being
very' much /flattened: I both mandibles are perfectly straight; thé
upper TOntagónal, the Tower obtusely trigórial|fp6]p? tongue5 is
somewhat shorter than that of other species of the’ genus ; the
bristly leathers’at the base of 'the'bill are Very "thick and long/
a provision which nature nas~ made^for mrost Arcticf^piras; in
th i/ they measure half an ■* inch, and are-blackish, white atwase*
somewhat miped|with reddish <white‘; the igSpes$£u?e 'bluish black;
tn e whole head ana neck above and onVhe siHesf hae®,* rump,
scapulars, smaller wing1 and tailjpoverts/ constituting line whole
upper "-surfaces of the ■bird, of an umform, deep," glossy black,
changing somewhat =dq' .green and" purple, accorairig lto ■ the
incidence ofVlight; the feathers of tne^frbht are tipped with
white, producing elegant dotss’ óf that* colour-; - ^wnicïl 'perhaps
disappear with ’age); the crown of the head is örndmentëd'WiSi
a beautim oblong spot one' inch in length, arid moSeftBan half ah
incb nroadjVóF a bright silky ’golden yéllbw^aintly tinged'-with
orange, and the leathers in this fpact? very fine,/and sSmewnat
rignl ;r5raiey are black at their' b a se/and marked witB&swhité *at
dié Jimits of thé two’colours; thebaaeJi# tne plumage/elswbreE^
^puniformly ^plumbeous ash: éaclf"side'Trom n B ^ p j offlb©
mouth, arisesTaf broad' whip^lirie, forming a white space before
theóèyj^aprofongelï on the neck;r-neima® this there ‘is a‘ blaak
one/ wnioM|mssiBg' from'the base of the Tower mandiole^oins the
mass d f black ‘of.the body;-"a-tuft/bffretaeemis ‘white feathers
advances far upim tfie hill beneath; the throat, bïèrim/iriiddlëiOf
the belly;-«and tips of thé undèr tail-cöVerts are pure white; the
sides of the breast, flanks broadly, and base, of the tail-eovertë,
and even* of" some of the jj Belly feathers, are thiókly %aved.'with
Tiriës -of black arid white/as well as' the femoral arid short tarsal
feathers: in > eKj^ M-aMr(R a»»,f the oneTrepresented in the plate,
these.' partstf.-akea cdnsid&EabTVi,..les,s upd^ated^ibeingaQ'K a much
Dror,,™ 4 jh c s< \y ioa-'’ long/reaching two-thirda
‘me length of'tin; QmfasnuiuiHi’».. to alb ( r ■i-1.W’\tee(bii<»-l\<\lriir|f
th|.. p r imary, hardly longer, t^an. &e,? w ^ t ! h ; ^ §,nd Che fOtir
follawmg, subequal arid. fgngesj?Aw the ^m aller Wtiri^^fertejVas
men%oifed/' glpssy l|^ack: a llJK ,o th e r nppe* ('PA ^^ra>lweH as
&e.Aquills, - a r e - a dull black, the„prim^ge^ ^ ing/spm.ewh^
duileq; A p se |a |eyjV^iriad y t^ ag k q d^on b(A?w,ebs/with, square
Aitet'snots,, larger, on .the.iinner arid, as they, the
k a ^ ;. | h ^ empfe« es age mfojShr snotted aj»/the&inner.^ne. the
spotS|tpMng^ the app&aranb’&'tQfAands,: .the tipsTo? all the q S l s
a®p rnisnatfed,: tbp^Um r im g -cu\ t 1 bs .ane^v a \ cd yith blapk and
white^simiJa^ j ^ ^ ^ A a n k s * ttu/.aiJ i.-^,<aur'yiruht salqng/ql tie
shape usual in the WoodpeckeBS,; and^Omposerl < Tj -wcIaV k l i W /
9fi..yhich; thetfourt,middle, /ana&pte,and vterv robust tand^ u t e; are
plain deep black,,die, next on oatlijisnh iv A o M_ry,j®ute,J and'
at <£h§,jP0ifib oHxEuMy and .irregularly
^i]j P„ed^vvith black jg> thct<.twp nex.1 Vo- tin s<. .Ur i hi It _lp?Lrie
tip» l^ n d |^ ^ i t h qblacky pBjSfe^inn&r.,Van-e / at bJs'et "thpVnqre
being , much,.purer white andutsomdwhat rounded.- the
a^ yM pM sd^aju^ b.anOerhjlj j^ j jglout
with black, and^pure whijOfe t h a t arsu^. Ut ghfh^ (if an inch
l°ng| t a r U h a lfd li ,h n^tli, and, .with the
t^pSj^od nails,^dark piujqlj^iMxs.u^ljie naiis ay^mtuh .< urv,ed, and
•asifflC-, the .hind Qpe^b^jngA e
TB.W^|^^sc^1^feri.-Pf?orir^ ^ ^ t^ ,ama^spjeciingn,
t ybaph, ^%^i^ \i^^^'ep.e£amined.itfirii.nhi(Mii TOM»isf*topr ri es s..
S^&P^P^iQ^ykgweVer, ,th-is dfe^rintion, ^ ith the detailed ‘ 0PP's
^Sonie »wriaMi we^mu-st coprilude db.at the s p e ^ ^ ^ ^ subject
t^v^ ia tio n s in size and.plumage,^whioh according to .the erroneous
impression given by authors);eould not be,satisfactorily accounted