444 Mr. Vigors's Sketches in Ornithology. 



24. PSITTACUS LEUCOCEPIIALUS. LmW., I. p. 147. WO. 30. 



White headed Parrot. Edw.^ L 166. 



White fronted Parrot. Lath., Gen. Hist. II. p. 233. 



no. 177. 

 Perroquet a front blanc du Senegal. PL Enl. 338. 



25. Picus PERCussus. Temm. 



Pic. poignarde. ^ Id., PI. Col. 424. 



Pic. virescens, vertice strigd auriculari alls cuudaque nigris 

 albo'Tioiatis , crvMi maculuque gulari cocdneis ; subtm pcdlidior, 

 nigro fasciatus. 



Frontis verticisque plumae nigrae, albo-striatae ; genarum albae, 

 striga auriculari ab oculo extendente nigra. Crista subelongata 

 niaculaqae grandis gularis coccineae. Pectoris plumae albae, in 

 medio nigro striata;. Dorsum, scapular es tectrices superior es 

 uropi/giumque virescentes, hoc fiisco leviter fasciato. Remiges 

 nigrae ; omnium pogoniis internis ad margines albo maculatis ; 

 extimarum duarum pogoniis externis albo, mediarum albo et vi- 

 rescenti, reliquarum, tribus ultimis secundariarum exceptis, 

 virescenti ad margines maculatis : his tribus ultimis virescentibus, 

 in medio nigro notatis. Rect7ices nigrae, omues ad basin albo 

 striata;, et, duabus mediis exceptis, ad margines albo maculatas ; 

 subtus, mediae ad basin, reliquae per totam longitudinem, albo 

 fasciatae. Abdomen crissumque virescenti -alba, nigro fasciata. 

 Longitudo corporis, 10^; rostri ad frontem, | ; ad rictum, l^/ 

 alcB a carpo ad remigem 4tam, 4! ; caudce, 4{ ; tarsi, -J. 



I had considered this bird a new species, and had described it 

 accordingly, until I saw it figured in one of M. Temminck's new 

 plates, as the female of Picus percussus (PI. Col. 390). I have 

 let my description stand, as entering somewhat more into the 

 characters of the bird than that given by M. Temminck, in the 

 letter-press to the above plate. There is no specimen of the male 

 in Mr. MacLeay's collection. 



26. CoLAPTES AURATUS. Swuinson. 



Picus auratus. Linn., p. 174. no. 9. Wils., Jm. Orn. I. 

 p. 45. Prince of Musign., Gen, N. Am. Birds, sp. 36. 



