316 Dr, A. Ha2l on the Mammals and Birds 



trils a yellowish white streak passes below the eye and terminatee 

 on the shoulders ; from the angle of the mouth a black streak 

 passes down on each side of the throat and terminates on the 

 black orbicular spot which invests the breast ; the black streak 

 on either side invests the crimson chin and throat ; the black 

 breast is bounded by a gamboge yellow streak which commences 

 on the shoulders, meets at the lower part of the breast, and is 

 thence continued in the mesial line to the belly and vent; sides 

 of the breast, and flanks yellowish brown streaked with black ; 

 inner wing and tail coverts whitish yellow. 



2nd and 3rd primaries subequal and longest; 1st considerably 

 shorter than the 4th. Length 8^ inches ; alar expanse 13 inches. 

 P, villosus. Hairy Woodpecker. 

 P. (Trichopicus) villosus. Baird ! 



v.s.P. Bill, legs and feet bluish horn colour ; irides hazel ; 

 eggs 5, white. 



Dorsal aspect. Frontlet feathers brownish white ; crown 

 black, bordered posteriorly by a crimson crescent ; line from the 

 nostrils over the eye white, terminating at the crimson crescent ; 

 line from the eye passes backwards, including the auriculars, and 

 meeting its fellow on the nape of the neck, forms a black border 

 to the crimson ; white sides of the neck separated in two portions 

 by a black streak commencing below the angle of the mouth and 

 terminating on the shoulders ; nape of neck black ; interscapular 

 region and rump black, with a white irregular streak down the 

 centre : scapulars black ; greater and smaller wing coverts black, 

 with a white spot near the tips of the outer vanes ; the two lateral 

 tail feathers white ; the third black with a dirty white tip ; the 

 others all jet black with shining shafts ; primaries and secondaries 

 black barred with white. 



Ventral aspect. White, soiled towards the vent. 



3rd and 4th primaries subequal and longest ; 2nd and 5th sub- 

 equal ; 1st shorter than the 6th. Length 9 J inches ; alar ex- 

 panse 14 inches. The occipital band in the female is black. 



(To be continued.) 



