140 
Y. 
CHILI 
W. 
DescripTion. 
-Pi'ace. 
Zz. 
LESSER 
SPOTTED 
; W. 
Wi CuO. Py baG te ER. 
Genus XXIl. WOODPECKER. 
Wane Chilis Wine = N° 5. Yellow-headed W, 
2. Leffler fpotted W. - 6. GuineaW. © 
3. Bank W. +. Mahratta W. 
4. Cape W. 
Picus lignarius, Ind. Orn. i. p. 224. 2.—Molin. Nat. H. Chili, (Fr. ed.) p. 215. 
HIS bird is fearcely as large as a Blackbird; it has a red-creflted 
crown, and the body is banded with blue and white: the bill is 
fo ftrong, as not only to enable the bird to make holes in decayed 
trees, but even in living and found ones, in which it makes the neft. 
It is faid from this laft circumflance to deftroy many: fruit-bearing 
trees. 
Inhabits the kingdom of Chili. 
Picus minor, Ind. Ora. i. p. 229. 15> 
Leffer {potted Woodpecker, Gen. Syz, ii. p. 566. 14.—Id. Sup. p. 107 
T has been hinted to me, that there is every reafon to believe that 
this bird does not refemble the female parent, till after it has 
thrown off the neftling feathers, as in four or five young ones brought 
to an intelligent naturalift at various times, all of them had red 
crowns ; however, this matter could not be afcertained by diffection. 
The egg of this bird and that of the Wryneck are fo alike,.as to be mif- 
taken for each other, but differs in weighing lefs by about four 
grains. 
We are now pretty certain that the Middle Woodpecker is only the 
young of the Greater Spotted Woodpecker, both fexes having the whole 
of the crown red during their imperfect ftate of plumage. 5 
