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PHILIPPINE WOODPECKER. 

 ( Picus Ph ilippinar um. ) 



P.Jusco-viridis cristatus, subtus albo nigroque maculatus, uropygio 



rubro, rectricibus maculis duabus albis. 

 Brown-green crested Woodpecker, beneath spotted with black 



and white ; rump red ; tail-feathers with two white spots. 

 Picus Philippinarum. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 236. 30. 

 Palalaca, ou Pic vert tachete des Philippines. Btiff". Hist. Nat. 



Ois. /. 21. 



Pic verd des Philippines. Buff. PL Enl. 6Q1. 

 Bengal Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 1. 581. 26. B. 



ABOUT eleven inches in length : beak black : 

 irides red : head crested : the throat, fore-part of 

 the neck, breast, and belly white; each feather 

 margined with black : upper tail-coverts of a bright 

 red : tail black brown, with a white spot on each 

 web, forming a band of that colour when the tail 

 is extended : rest of the body of a shining brown : 

 legs black. 



Called Palalaca by the natives of Luzonia, of 

 which place it is an inhabitant : it is said to make 

 a great noise with its beak, so as to be heard above 

 a quarter of a mile distance. 



