196 LESSEE BLACK WOODPECKER. 



with dirty white : breast, belly, sides, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts dirty white, 'the feathers mar- 

 gined with brown, except those of the tail-coverts, 

 which are blackish ; there is also a transverse stripe 

 of black on the latter : tail black : legs and claws 

 pale lead-colour. 



LESSER BLACK WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus hirundinaceus.) 



P. niger, occipite cristato rnbro, humeris albido punctatis, abdomine 



inferiors albo, 

 Black Woodpecker, [with the hinder part of the head crested 



and red ; shoulders spotted with whitish ; lower part of the 



abdomen white. 

 Picus hirundinaceus. Lath. Syst. Nat. 1. 174. 5.GmeL Syst. 



Nat. 1. 426. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 227- 8. 

 Picus flavipes. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 438. 

 Le petit Pic noir de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 54. 



Buff. PL Enl. 694. 2. ' 



Yellow-legged Woodpecker. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 167. 

 Lesser Black Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 55Q. 7. 



THIS variable species is in length about seven 

 inches : beak an inch and a quarter, and brown : 

 irides whitish : general colour black : hind head 

 red : edges of the wings and lower part of the 

 belly white : legs yellowish : claws black : one 

 mentioned by Buffon differs in some respects from 

 the above, having a white line above the eye, and 

 towards the back of the head a few yellowish 

 spots : down the middle of the head a dash of red : 



