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GOLD-BACKED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus senegalensis.) 



P.J ronte genisque fuscis, pileo rubro, dor so remigibusque Julvo- 



aureis t corpore subtus griseojusco alboque undulato. 

 Woodpecker with the forehead and cheeks brown ; crown red ; 



back and quills fulvous gold ; body beneath grey, waved with 



brown and white. 

 P. senegalensis. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 430. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



237. 3d, 

 Le petit Pic du Senegal. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ?. 25.Buf. 



PI. Enl. 345. f. 2. 

 Gold-backed Woodpecker, Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 586. 33. 



THE Gold-backed Woodpecker is very little 

 longer than a Sparrow : beak dusky : crown red : 

 forehead and sides brown : quills and back of a 

 golden fulvous yellow: the under parts of the 

 body transversely waved with grey brown and dull 

 white : coverts and rump greenish : the tail-fea- 

 thers black, all except the two middle ones spotted 

 with yellow : legs dusky. Is an inhabitant of 

 Senegal 



