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[Alan Hartley]

> I've got another puzzle for you Dave - the "Pileated" woodpecker
> (Dryocopus pileatus), a large red crested woodpecker, often seen by
> loggers and people residing in the woods. The name is pronounced
> pIl-i-ey-ted (using the alphabet of this list). "Pileated" translates
> from Latin into something like "capped". However, the name sounds a lot
> like the Chinook Jargon "Pil Latet", or "red-head".
>
> This could be a complete coincidence... What do you think?

That is quite a coincidence! But the OED shows a pretty good pedigree in
biological English:

Pileated

1. Nat. Hist. = prec.; spec. applied to certain Echini or sea-urchins;
also, to certain birds having the feathers of the pileum very
conspicuous, as the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) of N.
America, the male of which has a scarlet pileum.

a1728 WOODWARD Fossils II. (1729) 70 A pileated Echinus, taken up, with
different Shells of several kinds. 1749 Phil. Trans. XLVI. 146, I have
seen some Specimens of the common pileated and galeated Echinites. 1782
LATHAM Gen. Synop. Birds I. 554 Pileated Woodpecker. 1884 J. BURROUGHS
in Century Mag. Dec. 222/2 The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker..I have
never heard drum. 1928 G. M. SUTTON Introd. Birds Pennsylvania 81 The
call of the Pileated is a high, irregular cackle.
...

Pileus

1. Antiq. A felt cap without a brim, worn by the ancient Greeks and
Romans. (Cf. PETASUS.)

1776 J. ADAMS Fam. Lett. (1876) 210 For the seal, he proposes..on one
side..Liberty with her pileus. 1850 J. LEITCH tr. C. O. Müller's Anc.
Art §404 (ed. 2) 542 On coins of Nicaea Pan stands with a pileus. 1879
Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 134/1 The pileus of the former [the most
ancient Greeks] being nearly the same as the modern fez.

2. Bot. A cap-like formation in various fungi; esp. the cap-like or
umbrella-like structure at the top of the stipes, bearing the hymenium
on its under surface, in the Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, etc.); also
called cap (see CAP n.1 10a).

   1760 J. LEE Introd. Bot. II. xxxi. (1765) 154 Agaricus, with the
Pileus on a Stipes. 1776 WITHERING Brit. Plants (1796) I. 376 The Gills
are the flat, thin substances, found underneath the Pileus. 1875 BENNETT
& DYER Sachs' Bot. 249 The naked pilei are originally gymnocarpous.

3. Ornith. = PILEUM.