Head and neck bright crimson, that colour descending on the fore neck, and margined with a semilunar band of black; back wings and tail glossy bluish-black; inner secondaries, rump, and lower parts, pure white. Young with the head and neck brownish-grey, streaked with dusky; feathers of back and wing-coverts dusky, edged with grey; secondary quills yellowish-white barred with black; lower parts greyish-white, the sides streaked with dusky. _Male_, 9, 17. _Female_, 8-1/2. Breeds from Texas to Nova Scotia, and throughout the interior to the head waters of the Missouri; thence to Lake Huron. Extremely common. Great numbers spend the winter in Louisiana. Red-headed Woodpecker, Picus erythrocephalus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 142. Picus erythrocephalus, Bonap. Syn. p. 45. Melanerpes erythrocephalus, Red-headed Woodpecker, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 316. Red-headed Woodpecker, Picus erythrocephalus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 141; v. v. p. 536. 275. 20. Picus torquatus, Wils. Lewis's Woodpecker. Plate CCCCXVI. Fig. 7. Male. Fig. 8. Female. Upper parts black, highly glossed with dark green; a band across the forehead, the chin, and a broad patch on the side of the head, surrounding the eye, deep carmine, or blood-red; beyond this, the throat and part of the sides of the neck black; a band of dull white across the hind neck, continuous anteriorly with a large patch of yellowish-white, occupying the fore neck and part of the breast; the rest of the breast and the sides bright red; lower wing-coverts, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts black. Young with the red on the head scarcely apparent, that on the lower parts mixed with greyish-white, the fore part of the neck dull grey, and the white ring on the hind neck wanting; many of the feathers there with one or two white spots near the end. _Male_, 11, wing, 7-2/12. Rocky Mountains, and Columbia River. Abundant. Migratory. Lewis's Woodpecker, Picus torquatus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p. 31. Picus torquatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 46. Lewis's Woodpecker, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 577. Lewis's Woodpecker, Picus torquatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 176. **** Bill comparatively slender, slightly arched, acute, with the lateral angles obsolete. Genus _Colaptes_ of authors. 276. 21. Picus auratus, Linn. Golden-winged Woodpecker.--Flicker. Tucker. High-holder. Plate XXXVII. Male and Female.