444 Mr. Vigors's Sketches in Ornithology/. 



24. PsiTTAcus LEUcocEPiiALUs. Linn., I. p. \47. Tio. 30. 



White headed Parrot. Edw., t. 166. 



White fronted Parrot. Lath., Gen. Hist. II. ;;. 235. 



no. 177. 

 Perroquet a front blanc du Senegal. PI. Enl. 338. 



25. Picus PERcussus. Temm. 



Pic. poignurde. ^ Id., PI. Col. 424. 



Pic. virescens, vertice strigd auriculuri uiis caudaque m'gris 

 albo-notatis, crista maculuque giilari coccineis ; sublux pallidiory 

 nigrofasciatus. 



Frotitis verticisqac plumae nigrse, albo-striatiB ; genarum albae, 

 strigS. auricular! ab oculo extendente nigra. Crista subelongata 

 maculaque grandis gularis coccineae. Pectoris plumae alba?, iu 

 medio nigro striata;. Dorsum, scapulares iectrices superiorea 

 uropi/giumqne virescentes, hoc fusco leviter fasciato. Remiges 

 nigrai ; omnium pogoniis internis ad margines albo maculatis ; 

 extimarum duarum pogoniis externis albo, mediarum albo et vi- 

 rescenti, reliquarum, tribus ultimis secundariarum exceptis, 

 virescenti ad margines maculatis : his tribus ultimis virescentibus, 

 in medio nigro notatis. Rcctrices nigrae, omnes ad basin albo 

 striata;, et, duabus mediis exceptis, ad margines albo maculatae ; 

 subtus, medise ad basin, reliqua; per totam longitudinem, albo 

 fasciatae. Abdomen crissumque virescenti -alba, nigro fasciata. 

 Longitude corporis, 10^; rostri ad frontem, I ; ad rictum, I5; 

 alee a carpo ad remigem 4tam, 41 ; caudce, A\ ; tarsi, |. 



I had considered this bird a new species, and had described it 

 accordingly, until I saw it figured in one of M. Temminck's new 

 plates, as the female of Picus percussus (PI. Col. 390). I have 

 let my description stand, as entering somewhat more into the 

 characters of the bird than that given by M. Temminck, in the 

 letter-press to the above phite. There is no specimen of the male 

 in Mr. MacLeay's collection. 



26. CoLAPTES AuuATUs. Swuiuson. 



Picus auratus. Linn., p. 174. no. 9. IVils., Am. Orn. I. 

 p. 45. Prince of Musign., Gen. N. Am. Birds, sp. 36. 



