Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

TEXAS WOODPECKER.

396. Dryobates scalaris bairdi. 7½ inches.

This species is brownish white below, has the back barred with black and white, on account of which it is often known as the “Ladder-back Woodpecker.” The male has the whole crown red, shading into mixed black and whitish on the forehead. Its habits and eggs are the same as the previous species.