BENGAL WOODPECKER. 1 85 



reiterated with such velocity, that the head scarcely 

 seems to move, and the sound may be heard 

 distinctly for half a mile. It is called in different 

 parts of England by the various names of Wood- 

 spite, Rainfowl*, Highhoe, Hewhole, Awl-bird, 

 Peck-a-tree, Yappingale, Yaffler, Woodwall, and 

 Poppinjay; and has a very harsh note. 



BENGAL WOODPECKER, 

 (Picus bengalensis.) 



P. viridis, crista rubra, nucha nigra, fronte et jugulo albo ni- 

 groque vario, corpore subtus albo. 



Green Woodpecker, with a red crest ; top of the neck black ; 

 forehead and jugulum varied with black and white ; body be- 

 neath white. 



Picus bengalensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 175. 13. Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 433. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 235. 20. Briss. 4. 14. 2, 



Le Pic verd de Bengale. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 23. Buff. PI. 

 Enl. 6p5. 



Bengal Woodpecker. Albin. 3. 22. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 580. 

 26. 



Spotted Indian Woodpecker. Edtv. 182. 



A MOST beautiful species, and native of Bengal 

 and Ceylon : is in length about eight inches and 

 a half: the beak one inch and a half, and black- 

 ish : crown black, spotted with white : back of the 

 head with a long crimson crest: sides of the head 

 beneath the eye white, from whence a white line 



* It has the name of Rain-fowl, from the notion that it makes 

 most noise before rain. 



