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3rd primary longest ; 2nd next ; 1st about a line shorter than 

 the 4th. Length 13^ inches; alar expanse 19^ inches. Length 

 of bill from angle of mouth 2 inches and two thirds. The fe- 

 male has the sides and a belt on the breast ferruginous, and the 

 slate blue duller. 



OrD. in. SCANSORIA. 



Genus Picus, 



Gen. char. Bill more or less long, straight, and cuneiform at 

 the tip ; nostrils basal, open, covered by bristly feathers ; tongue 

 round, extensile, sharp and rigid at the point, and armed with 

 stiff reversed bristles ; two toes before and generally two behind ; 

 feet robust ; anterior toes connected at their base ; posterior ones 

 divided ; 3rd and 4th primaries longest ; two lateral tail feathers 

 very short ; the shafts of all the tail feathers mucronate, strong, 

 and very rigid, 



1st Section, — Tetradactyla. 

 Subdivision 1. With the hill curved^ cuneiform, under mandible 

 not carinate. 

 P. auratus. Golden-winged Woodpecker. 

 Colaptes auratus, Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill dusky horn colour ; legs and feet pale bluish ; 

 irides hazel ; eggs 6, white. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of head cinereous brown tinged with 

 olivaceous ; posterior part of the crown with scarlet crescentic 

 streak ; nape of neck, interscapular region, scapulars, greater and 

 smaller wing coverts, and outer vanes of the secondaries, umber 

 coloured barred with black; rump white; tail coverts white 

 barred with black ; outer and inner vanes of the primaries, and 

 inner vanes of the secondaries black, with rudimentary white bars 

 on the outer vanes of the 3rd and upwards ; tail cuneiform, the 

 feathers acuminate black ; the outer vane of the lateral ones bar- 

 red with white, the bars rudimentary on the outer vanes of the 

 second ; the shafts of the quills of the wings and tail golden 

 yellow. 



Ventral aspect. Cheeks, and around the eye, auriculars,chin,and 

 throat, cinnamon colour approaching to fawn, deepening into cin- 

 ereous on the sides of the neck ; moustaches and crescent on the 

 breast jet black ; belly, vent, and sides of tianks with round black 

 spots on a white ground in the two former situations, and on a 

 cinnamon ground in the two latter ; tail coverts white with black 



