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WOODPECKER. 



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Description. 



Place, 



Le petit Pie raye du Senegal, Buf. oif, vii. p. 25. 

 Petit Pic du Senegal, PL enl. 345. 2. 



"h^QT much bigger than a Sparrow. Bill dufky : crown red : 

 forehead and fides brown : the back is of a golden fulvous 

 yellow : quills the fame : coverts and rump greenifh : the under 

 parts of the body tranfverfely undulated with grey brown and 

 dull white : the two middle tail feathers black ; the others black,, 

 fpotted with yellow :. legs dufky. 

 Inhabits Senegal. 



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CAPE 



W. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Pic atete grife du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. oif. vii-. p. 26. 

 —. PL enl. 786. N° 2. 



T ESS than a Lark. Bill lead-colour : back, neck, and breaft,. 

 olive brown ; the reft of the plumage deep grey ; the head 

 lighteft: rump and upper tail coverts red : the tail is black ; and 

 the quills dufky : the legs are lead-coloun, 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



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ESCRIPTION. 



Picus femiroftris, Lin.SyJi. i. p. 175. N° 14. 



Picus maxilla fuperiore breviore, Muf. Adolph. Fred, i. p. 



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KNOW of no one who has defcribed this bird, independent of 

 the Angularity of the bill, except Linnaus. It is of the fize of 

 a black Woodpecker. The bill is pale; the lower mandible 

 much as in others of the genus, but the upper one much fhorter, 



very 



