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crimson. All have the forehead a dirty whitish brown, varying 
a great deal according to the weather, being mostly stained 
from the wet rotten wood in which they seek their food. 
56. Picus NUMiDicus, Malh. The Algerian Pied Wood- 
pecker. 
Moorish. Nakab. 
" Resident and common in the vicinity of Tangier, being 
found only in large woods, where they nest in holes of trees, 
laying from five to six eggs, similar to those of P. major" — 
Favier. 
I did not find this bird '' common" near Tangier; and as 
for the " large woods,'" there are none close to that town ; 
about Tetuan this Woodpecker is plentiful, similar in habits 
to P. major. Favier states that they migrate across the 
Straits ; but I should say this can hardly be the case. I have 
seen and shot many specimens of P. major in Andalucia, but 
never met with P. numidicus, although three or four of the 
Spanish birds had some few crimson feathers on the breast. 
The difi'erence between the species, as given in Sharpe and 
Dresser's ' Birds of Europe,' is that the African bird has at 
all ages a crimson pectoral band and a longer and more 
slender bill, while the young has a black forehead. 
57. Gecinus SHARPII, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 153. 
The Spanish Green Woodpecker. 
Spanish. Pito real. 
This Green Woodpecker, in habits, note, and manner of 
nesting, is exactly similar to the British G. viridis, and only 
differs firom it in having the sides of the face dark grey instead 
of black, and in being brighter-coloured on the head and 
rump, the latter being much brighter, and in some individuals 
almost flame-coloured ; but I have seen British-killed spe- 
cimens of G. viridis quite as highly marked. The female, as 
in that species, has no crimson moustache. It is abundant 
in some localities near Seville, particularly in the Cotos and 
towards Cordova and Granada. I never met with it nearer 
to Gibraltar than the vicinity of Seville. 
