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SPOTTED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus varius.) 



P. albo nigroque varius, vertice rubro, crisso albo,fuscofasciato. 

 Woodpecker varied with black and white ; top of the head red ; 



vent white, barred with fuscous. 

 Picus varius. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 176. 20. Gmel. Syst* Nat. 1. 



438. Lath.Ind. Orn. 1. 232. 21. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amcr. Sept. 



2.63. 

 Le pic varie de la Caroline. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 7. 77. Buff. 



PL Enl. 785. 



Le Pic macule. Vieil. Ois. de UAmer. Sept. 2. 63. 118. 

 Yellow-bellied Woodpecker. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 166. Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 2. 574. 20. Lath. Sup. 109. 



IN length near eight inches : beak one inch, 

 and lead-coloured : crown red, bordered with 

 black : hind parts of the head pale yellow, reach- 

 ing forwards, and forming a band of that colour 

 over the eyes : from the base of the beak to the 

 back of the head runs a black line, which passes 

 through the eyes ; beneath which is another one 

 of pale yellow, beginning at the nostrils and ending 

 on the sides of the neck ; there is also a fourth 

 band, which commences at the base of the under 

 mandible, and bends towards the fore-part of the 

 neck, where it blends with the black on that part : 

 throat red : fore-part of the neck and breast black 

 bordered with yellow : sides, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts white, barred transversely with brown : 

 abdomen light yellow varied with black: body 

 above variegated with black and white : two mid- 



