■Place. 



WOODPECKER. 



fcurely marked with four or five fmall red fpots : noftrils covered 

 with black briftles, turning forwards : from the corners of the 

 mouth, paffing backwards, is a ftroke of black like a whifker : 

 back and fcapulars blue green : rump yellow : wing coverts yel- 

 lowifh green : quills dark brown, fpotted with light yellow : 

 upper and lower tail coverts dull green : tail itfelf brown, crofTed 

 with duiky lines : under the throat whitifh : from thence to the 

 vent cinereous, with a mixture of green : legs and claws 

 black. 



This came from Norway. 



3 1 - 

 PERSIAN 



W. 



Le Pic jaune de Perfe, Brlf. orn. iv. p. 20. N°5. 

 Picus luteus cyanopus Perficus, Rati Syn. p. 44. 9, 

 Perilan Woodpecker, Will, orn. p. 141. 



Description, '"pHE firft defcriber of this was Aldrovandus ; after whom Wil- 

 lughby thus defcribes it : " In bignefs it differs little or no- 

 thing from the green Woodpecker, only it has a thicker head and 

 neck, and a longer bill : the feathers, from the middle of the 

 crown to the end of the tail, have fomething of the ferruginous ; 

 but the bill is altogether ferruginous : the feet are of a pale blue j 

 the claws are black : the reft of the body is yellow, fave that all 

 the wing feathers ends or tips incline fomewhat to ferruginous; 

 and that a fpot of the fame colour encompaffes the eyes." 

 -Place. This was faid to breed in Perfia. 



Buffon * thinks that feveral of the laft are varieties only of the 

 common green Woodpecker. Whether this be fo or not, I think it 



* Hift. des eif. vii. p. 1 1 , 



right 



