WOODPECKER. 587 



very pointed, thin, and fharp at the tip : the head is brown, each 

 feather tipped with yellowifh ; making the head appear fpotted : 

 the body on the upper parts is brown, inclining to afh ; beneath 

 white : the wings are brown : the outer edges of the quills fpotted 

 with white : tail brown *, 



Inhabits India. Place. 



Le Picraye de St. Domingue, Brif. cm. iv. p. 65. N° 25. pi. 4. f . I. 36. 



1 Buf. oif. vii. p. zy. RAYED 



PI. enl. 2B1. W » 



r T 1 HIS is a little bigger than the greater fpotted Woodpecker t the Description, 



length is eight inches and three quarters. Bill horn-colour : 

 the forehead, cheeks, and throat, are of an elegant grey : the 

 crown and hind head red : the upper parts of the body black, 

 tranfverfely ftriated with olive : quills blackifh, fpotted with yellow 

 on the outer, and with whitifh on the inner web : rump and upper 

 tail coverts red : fore part of the neck, bread, and under wing co- 

 verts, grey brown: belly, fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, olive ; 



» Pallas f has mentioned his opinion concerning this bird, which, as far as 

 relates to the bill, he thinks muft be a Lufus Nature?, and therefore unnatural 3 

 and inftances a fpecimen of the common green Woodpecker, lately met with in 

 Germany, wherein the upper mandible was fcarce half as long as the under one. 

 He gives alfo two inftances of the fame in the Kingsfijher genus, and one in the 

 Ojfter-catcber. To which I may add the very fame circumftance in a •white 

 Crow in the Leverian Mufeum, whofe upper mandible is juft formed in the fame 

 manner. Notwithstanding all this, we are ftill indebted to Linnteus for a 

 new fpecies, not before defcribed, nor figured by any author, as far as I can 

 learn. 



+ Spiciltg. 6. p. 12, 



4 F z tail 



