WOODPECKER, 



right to detail the colours, Sec. of each, that the reader may the 

 better judge for himfelf, fince other authors are not of that opinion. 



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Picus aurantius, Lin. Syjl. I. p. 174. N° 8. 



Le Pic du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. cm. Iv. p. 78.7N 10. t. 6. f. 1. 



Lev. Muf. 



32. 



©RANGE 



W. 



T ENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill an inch and a half in Description. 



length, and of a deep lead-colour : crown and hind head 

 red ; the feathers of them long and narrow : on each fide, 

 from behind the eye to the hind head, is a ftripe of white ; and 

 another from the noftrils, pafling under the eye down the fides of 

 the neck : the hind part and fides of the neck are blackifh : the 

 cheeks, throat, and fore part of the neck, dirty grey ; the margins 

 of each feather blackifh : the upper part of the back of a fine 

 golden orange-colour : fcapulars -golden olive, with an orange 

 tinge : lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, 

 blackifh : breaft, belly, fides, and thighs, dirty white ; the fea- 

 thers margined with brown : the under tail coverts the fame, with 

 blackifh margins, and a tranfverfe ftripe of black: wing coverts 

 blackifh brown ; on the tips of fome of them a dirty grey fpot ; 

 the greater ones next the body gilded olive, and fome of them 

 fpotted in the fame manner j thofe fartheft from the body are 

 plain black brown : quills dark brown ; fome of them fpotted 

 with dirty white : tail black : legs and claws pale lead-colour. 



Inhabits the Caps of Good Hops, Place. 



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