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RED-THROATED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus rubidicollis.) 



P. niger versicolor, f route uropygioque albis, corpore subtus coc* 



cineis 9 lateribusjlavescentibus. 

 Changeable black Woodpecker, with the forehead and rump 



white ; body beneath crimson, and sides yellowish. 

 Picus rubidicollis. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 63. 

 Le Pic a gorge rougeatre. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 63. 



FIGURED by Monsieur Vieillot, in his splendid 

 work on the North American birds, as a native of 

 St. Domingo : it is eight inches and a half in 

 length : head, neck, and upper parts of the body 

 black, changing in certain positions of light to 

 blue and green : forehead, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts white : the whole of the under parts of a 

 most beautiful crimson, except the sides of the 

 abdomen and neck, which are yellowish, the latter 

 with a few black spots : legs and beak lead-colour : 

 female grey and brown below, in other respects 

 similar to the male. 



