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WOOD P E C K E R. 



CARDINAL 

 W. 



Description* 



P.l AC e . 



Le Pic Cardinal del'Ifle de Lucon, Son. Voy. p. 72. pi. 35. 

 Le grand Pic varie de l'Ifle de Lucon, Buf. oif. vii. p. 6j. 



OIZE of our green Woodpecker. Bill blackifh ; the feathers 

 round the bafe of the upper mandible are grey, with a call of 

 green : the crown and hind head are of a bright red : on each 

 fide from the eye behind, and down the neck, almoft to the wing, 

 is a ftripe of white : the back and wing coverts are black, but the 

 feathers on the lower part of the neck, and upper part of the 

 back, are margined with white, and the wings are fpotted with 

 the fame : the quills and tail are black, with yellow fhafts ; the 

 greater quills are fpotted on the edges with yellow, and the lefTer 

 ones tranfverfely barred with white : the throat, breaft, and belly, 

 are white, marked with longitudinal black fpots : the legs are 

 blackifli : the tail feems fpotted in the plate, but is not men- 

 tioned in the defcription. 

 Inhabits the ifle of Luzonia. 



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NUBIAN 

 Description. 



L'Epeiche de Nubie onde & tachete, Buf, oif. vii. p. 66. 

 Pic tachete de Nubie, PL ad, 667. 



'"TpHIS is one-third lefs than the greater fpotted Woodpecker: 

 length feven inches and a half. The bill is black : hides 

 pale brown : the cro\vn is black, dotted with white : the forehead 

 brownifh : from that to the eye whitifh : chin the fame : the hind 

 head crimfon, and fomewhat crefted : the reft of the neck and 

 breaft whitifh, marked with black fpots, ihaped like tears : the 

 upper parts of the body moft agreeably and irregularly mixed 



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