590 WOODPECKER. 



the tail high yellow : belly and tail black : thighs and inner 

 coverts of the wings, pale yellow.: legs dark green* 

 Tiace. Inhabits Brqfil. 



-, «,^i.THT^ Le Pic rave de Cayenne, Brzf. om. iv. p. 60. N° 



CAYENNE _ . ' ; : _, „,.... 



<yy Le petit Pic raye de Cayenne, Buf. oij. vii. p. 31. 



Pic raye de Cayenne, PI, enl. 613. 



Description. r T , HIS is not fo big as the varied Woodpecker : the length is near 

 feven inches and a half. The bill ten lines and a half long, and 

 blackifh : the top of the head is black : hind head red : the fides 

 whitifh : hind part of the neck and back yellowifh olive ; but on 

 the lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, each 

 feather has a fpot of black near the tip : the throat is black, mi- 

 nutely fpotted with white : the fore part of the neck and bread 

 are of a dull yellowifh olive, with a fmall black fpot alfo near the 

 end of each feather ; and fome of them tipped with red : the belly, 

 fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, yellowifh, with a few black 

 fpots on the two laft: fcapulars and wing coverts dull olive, 

 tranfverfely ftriped with blackifh : quills of the laft colour, with 

 yellow Ihafts, fpotted on the outfide with yellow, and within with 

 white : tail black ; the fix middle feathers are barred with dull 

 olive on the outer web; but the two middle ones have the inner, 

 web marked the fame; the two outer ones are barred black and 

 rufous, with the Ihafts yellow : legs grey : claws grey brown. 

 Place.- Inhabits Cayenne. This has great likenefs to the laft but one. 



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