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GREY-HEADED GREEN WOODPECKER. 



(Picus norvegicus.) 



P. c&ruleo-viridis, capite collo corporeque subtus einereis, uro- 



pygio luteo, loris mystacibusque nigris. 

 Blue-green Woodpecker, with the head, neck, and body be- 



neath ash-colour ; rump yellow. 

 Picus norvegicus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 236. 33. 

 Picus canus. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 434. 

 Picus viridis norvegicus. Briss. 4. 18. 4. 



Grey-headed Green Woodpecker. Pen. Arct. ZooL 2. 277* 

 . Birds. 1. 65. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 585. 3O. 



THE grey-headed Green Woodpecker is said by 

 Edwards to be about the size of P. viridis ; and to 

 have the beak of a dull ash-colour, with the base 

 yellowish : head and hind part of the neck ash- 

 colour: the forehead marked with four or five 

 obscure red spots : from the corners of the mouth 

 a black, whisker-like mark : throat whitish ; from 

 thence to the vent cinereous, with a mixture of 

 green : back and scapulars blue green : wing- 

 coverts yellowish green : quills dark brown with 

 yellow spots : rump yellow : tail brown, barred 

 with transverse dusky lines j its coverts dull green ; 

 legs and claws black. Inhabits Norway. 



