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BED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus erythrocephalus.) 



P. capite toto rubro t alis caudaque nigris, abdomine remigibusque 



secundariis albis. 

 Woodpecker with the whole head red ; wings and tail black ; 



abdomen and secondary quill-feathers white. 

 Picus erythrocephalus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 174.7* Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 429. Eriss. 4. 52. 19. t. 3.f. 1. Lath.Jnd. Orn. I. 



227. 9. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 60. 

 JPic noir & domino rouge. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 55. 

 Pic de Virginie. Buff. PL Enl. 1 17. 

 Le Pic tricolor. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 60. 112. 113. 



young. 

 Red-headed Woodpecker. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 160. Lath. 



Gen.Syn. 2. 501. 1. 

 Picus obscurus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 429. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



226. 11. 

 White-rumped Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 563. 10. 



THIS destructive bird is eight inches and three 

 quarters in length : beak an inch and a quarter, 

 lead-coloured at the base, and black at the tip : 

 head and neck of a bright crimson, the latter edged 

 with black below : irides dusky : back and wings 

 black : breast, belly, and rump white : ten first 

 quill-feathers black, eleventh black and white, rest 

 white with black shafts: tail wedge-shaped and 

 black: legs and claws lead-colour: young bird 

 has the beak horn-coloured: head, throat, chin, 

 and all the upper parts of the body dusky, trans- 

 versely waved with dirty white: great wing-co- 

 verts black: primary quills dusky: the outer 



