580 



WOODPECKER. 



and if this has the fame manners, notwithftanding its colours, I 

 will as readily give up the point. 



26. 



BENGAL 



W. 



'ESCXIPTION. 



?I;ACE. 



Picus Bengalenfis, Lin. Sjji. i. p. 175. N° 13. 

 Le Pic verd de Bengale, Brif.om. iv. p. 14. N° 2. 



1 Buf. oif. vii. p. 23. — PL ml. 695. 



Woodpecker from Bengal, Alhin. iii. pi. 22. 

 Spotted Indian Woodpecker, Ed-zv. iv. pi. 182. 



HpHIS is lefs than our green Woodpecker : length eight inches 

 and a half. The bill is an inch and a half long, and 

 blackifh : top of the head black, fpotted with white : the hind 

 head furnifhed with a crimfon creft, and pretty long : hind part 

 of the neck black : throat and fore part of the neck black and 

 white, irregularly mixed : breaft, upper part of the belly, and 

 fides, white j the feathers margined with brown : lower belly, 

 thighs, and vent, white : fides of the head under the eye white; 

 from this a white line pafles down the neck : the upper part of 

 the back is yellow ; the lower of a dull green : the under wing 

 coverts, and the upper lefTer wing coverts, are deep brown 5 

 fpotted with white ; the reft, of the wing green, fpotted with 

 lighter green : quills black, barred with white : tail greenifh. 

 black : legs and claws blackifh. 



Inhabits Bengal, and is a raoft beautiful fpecies,. 



26. 



Description. 



Specht de Ceylon, Naturforfcher, p,'. 13. pi. 5i 



HIS is longer by an inch than the laft. The bill is an incK. 

 and four lines in length, of a lead-colour, palifh at the bafe : 



it; 



