Teachers' manual of bird-life/Colaptes auratus

2482645Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. Teachers ManualPlate XXVI, Flicker, (Colaptes auratus)Ernest Seton Thompson


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Flicker.

Length, 12.00 inches. Male, crown gray, nape scarlet, back brownish and black, rump white; under surface of wings and tail yellow; sides of throat and breast-patch black; belly spotted with black. Female, similar, but no black on sides of throat.