GOLD-CRESTED WOODPECKER. 203 



Charpentierjaune. The note of this bird is a sin- 

 gular kind of whistle six times repeated, but the 

 three last are more grave than the rest. 



GOLD-CRESTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus melanochloros.) 



'P.Julvo nigroque undato-maculatus, genis rubicundis t cristajulvo- 



aurea, rectricibus nigris. 

 Woodpecker spotted and waved with fulvous and black ; cheeks 



reddish ; crest of a brownish gold ; tail-feathers black. 

 Picus melanochloros. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 427. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 239.41. 



Picus varius americanus cristatus. Eriss. 4. 34. 12. 

 Le Grand Pic rayd de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 30. 



Evff. PL Enl. 719. 

 Gold-crested Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 589. 38. 



ABOVE a foot in length : beak dusky : head with 

 a very long golden orange-coloured crest : cheeks 

 reddish : between the base of the beak and the 

 eyes is a purple spot; space round the eye white : 

 prevailing colour of the body black and yellow, 

 mixed in waves, striae, and spots : under parts 

 spotted: tail black, the outer feathers yellow barred 

 with black : legs dusky. Native of Cayenne. 



