WOODPECKER. 



577 



with white, rufous, and brown : tail barred rufous and brown : 

 the thighs and vent are whitifh : legs blue. „ 



I fuppofe, from the name, it is a native of the deferts of Nubia, 

 though Buffon does not fay as much, only that it is a new 



/pedes. 



Place, 



Lc petic Epeiche brun des Moluques, Buf. oif. vii. p. 68. 

 Petit Pic des Moluques, PL ertl. 748. f. 2. 



CIZE of our little Woodpecker. Bill dufky : the upper parts of 

 the body are brownifh black, waved with white; beneath 

 whitilh, perpendicularly dafhed with brown : fides of the head 

 white ; beneath the eye a dafh of brown : the vent is white : the 

 tail feathers brown 5 the webs have on each fide three white dots : 

 quills are alfo fpotted with white : legs dufky. 

 Inhabits the Molucca IJlands. 



24. 

 BROWN 

 W. 



Description. 



PtACE, 



Picus viridis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 175. N" 12.— Scop. aim. i. p. 47. N* 5Z. 

 Le Pic verd, Brif. orn. iv. p. 9. N° 1. 



Buf. oif. vii. p. 7. pi. 1. — PI. enl. 371. 879. 



Grun-fpecht, Fri/cb. t. 35. 

 Picus viridis, Rait Syn. p. 42. A. 2. 



Woodfpite, Rain-fowl, High-hoe, Hew-hole, Will. orn. p. 135. t. 21. 

 Green Woodpecker, Albin. i. pi. iS.—Br. Zool. N° 84.— Amer. Zool. N* 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



'HpHIS is a large fpecies, being in length thirteen inches : it 



A weighs fix ounces and a half. The bill is two inches in 



length, dufky, and of a triangular fhape : the irides of two 



colours j the inner circle reddifh, the outer white : the crown of 



4E the 



25. 



GREEN 

 W. 



Dbscriptiost 



