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RAYED WOODPECKER. 



(Picus striatus.) 



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P. niger olivaceo striatus, subtus olivaceus, vertice occipite uropy- 



gioque rubris, cello subtus pectoreque griseo-fascis. 

 Black Woodpecker striated with olive, beneath olivaceous; 



crown, hind head, and rump red ; lower part of the neck and 



breast brownish grey. 

 Picus striatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 427 Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 



238. 3(). Vieil. Ois, de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 6l. 

 Picus dominicensis striatus. Briss. 4. 65. 25. t. 4.^ 1. 

 Pic raye de St. Domingue. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 27. Buff* 



PI. Enl. 281. 614. Vieil. Ois. de L'Amer. Sept. 2. 6l. 114. 

 Rayed Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 587. 36. 



IN length eight inches and three quarters : beak 

 horn-coloured : crown and back of the head red : 

 forehead, cheeks, and throat grey : upper parts of 

 the body black, striated transversely with olive : 

 fore-part of the neck, breast, and under wing- 

 coverts grey brown : belly, sides, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts olive : quills blackish, spotted on the 

 outer webs with yellow, and on the inner with 

 whitish : tail black ; the two outer feathers edged 

 with grey ; beneath olive : legs and claws blackish ; 

 female rather less; the top of the head black: in 

 other respects the plumage is similar to the male. 

 Inhabits St. Domingo, 



