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GORGET WOODPECKER. 

 ( Picus pectoralis. ) 



P. rufus nigro undulatus, abdomine rttfescente nigro maculato, 



fascia pectorali nigra* 

 Red Woodpecker waved with black ; abdomen reddish with 



black spots ; with a black band on the breast. 

 Picus pectoralis. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. XXXII. 4. 

 Gorget Woodpecker. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. Add. 372. 



THE Gorget Woodpecker is in length about nine 

 inches : beak pale horn-colour : head, neck, and 

 upper parts chesnut, getting paler towards the 

 rump, which with the vent is nearly white, with 

 black spots : back and wings marked with nu- 

 merous curved transverse black crescents; with 

 one very large across the breast, from whence to 

 the vent the colour is pale dusky rufous, spotted 

 with black : tail-feathers black : is very like Picus 

 rufus. 



