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Pecker (Ad Head neck throat and upper)

Ad.-Head, neck, throat, and upper breast deep red; upper back, primaries, bases of the secondaries, and wing-coverts bluish black; end half of the secondaries, rump, and upper tail-coverts white; tail black, the feathers more or less tipped or margined with white; lower breast and belly white, the middle of the latter generally tinged with reddish. Im.-Red head and neck of the adult replaced by mixed grayish brown and fuscous; upper back bluish black, barred with ashy; primaries and wing-coverts black; end half of the secondaries irregularly barred with black; tail black, generally tipped with white; lower breast and belly white, more or less streaked or spotted with fuscous. L., 9.75; W., 5·52; T., 3·30; B., 1-17. WOODPECKERS.