BIRDS. PICvE. 9. Picus. S3 



49. P. major. Variegated with black and white : vent 

 bright crimson : male with a bar of crimson across 

 the nape. 



Great fpottecl Wood-pecker. Ltwin t. 48. Walcot t. 48. 



Length 9 inches : extent 16 inches : weight 2 ounces and 3 quarters, 

 Bill dusky: irh red-hrown : front dirty-white: crown glofsy- 

 black : cheeks white,, with a black, line beneath from the corner of 

 the mouth to the back, of the head, and another running down each 

 *ide from the middle of it and nearly meeting on the breast : n a ck 

 with a black fpot each side : throat and breast yellowish-white : belly 

 white : vent and hind-part of the thighs fine crimfon : back, rump, 

 and tail-coverts and lefser wing-coverts black : scapulars and coverts 

 next them white : quills black, with white round fpots on each 

 \\ r eb : 4 middle tail-feathers bla-. k, the rest white towards the points 

 with black fpots : legs lead-colour : claws black. 

 Female without the crimfon bar on the nape. 



50. P. medius. Variegated with black and v/hite : crown 

 anrl vent bright crimson. 



Middle-fpotted Woodpecker. Br. Zoo!, t. 37. Lewin t. 49. 



Length 8 inches and a half: less than the laft. 



Differs from the former, of which it is probably the young bird, in 

 having the whole crown red, and the white about the eyes and neck 

 larger, aud the breaft inclining to brown. 



51. P. minor. Variegated with black and white: crown 

 in the male crimson, in the female white : vent dirty 

 white. 



Lefser fpotted Woodpecker. Br. Zool. t. 37. Lewin tr$o. 

 Length nearly 6 inches : extent 11 : weight not an ounce. 

 Bill lead-colour : iris red : front, throat, breaft and belly dirty-white: 

 fores white, bounded each side by a black line running down to the 

 shoulders, which are black : back and wings with black and white 

 bars .- 4 middle tail-feathers black, the reft more or lefs white fpotted 

 with black : legs lead-colour ; claws black. 



52. P. villosus. Variegated with white and black ; white 

 underneath : down the middle of the back a stripe 

 of white hair-like feathers : 2 outer tail-feathers 

 white : male with a red band across the hind- 

 head. 



Hairy Woodpecker. Lewin t. 47. Walcot. t. 47. 



Length 8 inches and 3-quarters : weight a ounces. 



Sill lead-colour : iris dull red ; head black, with 2 white lines each 

 side from the mouth, one over the eye, the other under it : upper 

 parts of the body black ; the back divided by a lift of loofe-webbed 

 hair-like white feathers ; wings fpotted wtih white : 4 middle 

 tail-feathers black, the next obliquely white at the tips, the laft but 

 one white with a black bafe, the outer-ones wholly white : legs 

 lead-colour : claws black. 



Female without the red band acrofs the head. 



53. P. Viridiv. Green: head grey, with scarlet spots : 

 tail with dusky bars. 



Green Woodpecker. Lewin t. 46. Donovan t. 37. Walcot. t. 46. 



Length 13 inches : extent 20 and-a-half .- weight-6 ounces and a half. 

 Bill, legs and claws horn-colour : iris whitish : orbits black, beneath 

 which in th-: male is a fcarlet fpot bordered with black : bodybc- 

 neath pale green : rump yellow green: quill-feathers dusky, with 

 round white fpots on each web, the corner-ones green on the 

 euter webs : edges of the wings variegated black and white : tail 

 with green and dusky bars, the tip dusky. 



Female without the fcarlet on the chin* 



