$8 2 WOODPECKER. 



Placs. Inhabits the ifle of Luzonia, where it is called by the natives 



Palalaca. 



Buffon mentions a greater fort *, which is faid to be as big as a 

 Fowl, with a red crefted head, and a green body. This is called 

 alfo Palalaca by the natives. The Spaniards call it Herrero, or 

 Blackfmith, on account of the great noife it makes with the bill in 

 linking the trees, which, according to Camel f , may be heard at 

 three hundred paces diftance. 



2 _ Le Pic vert de Goa, Buf. oif. vii. p. 22. 



GO A PI. 011.696. 



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 Description. ^PHE fize of this is lefs than the common green Woodpecker. 

 The bill is black : crown and hind head crimfon, the lad 

 crefted : this laft is bordered at the temples with a white ftripe, 

 which widens as it pafies behind to the neck : from the eye 

 fprings a black band, which, paffing downwards in a zigzag man- 

 ner, falls over the wing, the lefler coverts of which are alfo black ; 

 the reft of the wing is of a golden yellow, which ends in a greenifh 

 yellow on the lefler quills ; the greater ones are variegated black 

 and white : the tail is black : beneath the bodv is whitilh : the 

 feathers edged with black : legs lead-colour. 

 Pljlce. This came from Goa, and feems much allied to the laft but one, 



if not the fame. It differs indeed in having the whole crown red j 

 whereas, in the laft mentioned, the front is black, fpotted with 

 white, and the throat is alfo of this laft colour. 



* Palalaca, ou grand Pic vert des Philippines, Buf. oif, vol. vii. p. 20. 

 t Phil. Tranf. N° 285. ff ' 



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