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LINEATED WOODPECKER. 



PiCUS LINEATUS, LiNN. 



A SPECIMEN of a Woodpecker sent from the Columbia River by Dr 

 Meredith Gairdner to Professor Jameson of Edinburgh, who kindly 

 lent it to me for the purpose of being described, I find to be the Picus 

 Hneatus of Linn^ds, a species which appears to be very extensively dis- 

 tributed, being, according to various authors, plentiful in Cayenne, 

 Guiana, Brazil, and even Paraguay. The specimen, which was shot 

 near Fort Vancouver, is an adult male, but has been injured in the 

 wings. Along with it were specimens of Picus Harrisii and Picus 

 ruber, shot in the same neighbourhood. A Brazilian specimen may first 

 be described, and afterwards Dr Gaiedner's. 



Picus lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. \H-—Latli. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p. 226.—. 



Wagler, Syst. Av. 

 LiNEATED Woodpecker, Lath. Geu. Synops. vol. ii. p. 556. 



Adult Male. 



Bill nearly as long as the head, straight, strong, angulate, depressed 

 at the base, compressed toward the end, which is truncate, and late- 

 rally worn so as to be wedge-shaped. Upper mandible with the dor- 

 sal line slightly convex, the ridge very narrow and prominent, the sides 

 concave at the base, the lateral angles nearer the ridge than the edges, 

 which are sharp and direct ; the point with two slight ridges on each 

 side ; lower mandible with the angle long and narrow, the dorsal line 

 ascending and straight, the ridge narrow, the sides erect at the base, 

 afterwards sloping outwards and convex, the tip narrow ; gape-line 

 straight. Nostrils elliptical, covered by a tuft of reversed bristly fea- 

 thers. 



Head rather large, ovato-oblong ; neck rather long and slender. 

 Feet short, stout ; tarsus very short, scutellate before, scaly on the 

 sides ; two toes before, two behind, the fourth being directed back- 

 wards ; the first very small, the third a little longer than the fomth. 



