626. CAUCASIAN PIED WOODPECKER.
DENDROCOPUS POELZAMI.
Dendrocopus poelzami (Bogd.), Ptitz. Kavkaz. p. 121 (1879) ; Dresser, ix. p. 255, pl. 688 ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xviii. p. 214 ; Radde, Orn. Caucas., p. 310, pl. xx.
Persidski-Dyatell, Russ.
Male ad. Differs from D. major in being smaller, the bill more slender, and in having the under ports dark brown inclining to chocolate, and much less white on the inner wing-coverts. Culmen 1.4, wing 4.85, tail 3.0, tarsus 0.95 inch. The female differs in larking the crimson occipital band and in being rather smaller than the male.
Hab. Caucasus.
In general habits, note, and nidification this species does not appear to differ from D. major.
BookTitle:
A Manual Of Palaearctic Birds
Reference:
Dresser, Henry Eeles. A Manual of Palaearctic Birds. Vol. 1. 1902.
Title in Book:
626. Dendrocopus poelzami
CatNo:
626
Year:
1902
Page No:
439
Common name:
Caucasian Pied Woodpecker
M_ID:
10713
M_SN:
Dendrocopos major poelzami
Volume:
Vol. 1
Term name:
id:
10126
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