ORDER SCANSORES. ^.^jI 



The foreign woodpeckers are very numerous, and 

 considerably resemble one another, even in certam 

 distributions of colours ; as, for example, the red on 

 the head. 



Species analogous to the black woodpecker. 

 Pileated Woodpecker. (P. Pileatus.) L. Enl. 7I8. 



Black, with a red crest ; sides of head and neck with 

 white streaks; throat and spots on wings, white. 

 North America. 



Lineated Woodpecker. {P. Lineatus.) L. Enl. 717- 



Above black; neck and breast same, edged with 

 white ; crest, head, and nape red. Cayenne. 



White-billed Woodpecker. (P. Principalis.) 

 L. Enl. 690. 



Bill, white and channelled ; crest, red ; neck, black ; 

 white about rump. America. 



Helmet Woodpecker. (P. Galeatus.) Natt. Col. I7I. 



Crest, red ; neck and mantle, dusky ; beneath, yellow, 

 with black spots ; half-collar on throat, black and 

 spotted. 



The above four species are nearly allied ; to one of 

 which probably belongs the 



Buff-crested Woodpecker. (P. Melanoleucos.) Gm. 

 Lath. Syn. I. 2, t. 25. 



Crest, buff ; blackish-brown, with a waved white band, 

 from bill, joining on the back ; belly same. Surinam. 



