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BROWN WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus rnoluccensis.) 



Y.jusco-nigricans alba undatus, subtus albidus fusco sagittatus t 



crisso albo, remigibus rectricibusque albo maculatis. 

 Blackish-brown Woodpecker, waved with white ; beneath whitish, 



sprinkled with brown ; vent white ; quills and tail-feathers 



spotted with white. 

 Picus moluccensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 43Q. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1.233.25. 



Petit Epeiche brun des Moluques. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 68. 

 Petit Pic des Moluques. Buff. PI. Enl. 748. 2. 

 Brown Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 577. 2,4. Lath. Sup. 



LENGTH five inches : beak pale : sides of the 

 head white; crown and a spot beneath the eye 

 brown : upper parts of the body brownish black, 

 undulated with white : beneath whitish, sprinkled 

 with brown : quills spotted with white : vent white : 

 tail-feathers brown, with three white spots on both 

 webs : legs blueish. Inhabits the Molucca Islands 

 and India. 



