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GREY WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus griseus.) 



"P.pileo rubescente, gula genisque j-ubro variis ; rectricibus duabus 

 intermediis et extimis albo nigroque variis, reliquis nigris. 



Woodpecker with a reddish crown ; throat and cheeks varied 

 with red; the two middle tail-feathers and the most out- 

 ward one varied with black and white, the rest black. 



Picus griseus. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 6%. 



Picus Carolinus. y. Lath. Ind* Orn. 1. 231. 18. 



L'Epeiche raye de la Louisiane, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 73. 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 692. female. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 

 62.116. 



Carolina Woodpecker. Lath, Gen. Syn. 2. 571. 17. B. 



INHABITS Louisiana, and is about the size of 

 the Greater spotted Woodpecker: beak blackish: 

 upper part of the head dull red; with a slight 

 trace of that colour on the throat, and beneath 

 the eyes: prevailing colour black above, with 

 white stripes; and greyish white beneath: the 

 two middle and two outer tail-feathers black 

 and white mixed; the rest dull black: female 

 with a grey forehead, and the back of the neck 

 yelloV. 



