WOODPECKER. 



597 



Picas auratus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 174. N° 9. 



Phil, tfranf. vol. Ixii. p. 387. 



Le Pic raye de Canada, Brif. orn. iv. p. 72. N° 28. 



PL enl. 693. 



Le Pic aux ailes dore'es, Buf. oif. vii. p. 39. 

 Gold-winged Woodpecker, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 18. 



■ Kalm's I'rai/. ii. p. %d.-—Amer. Zoo!. N 3 



49 > 

 ■+» GOLD- 

 WINGED' 



W. 



*T\HIS Is a trifle lefs than our green Woodpecker : in length it Deseriptiss, 



is eleven inches : weight five ounces. The bill is an inch and 

 a half in length, black, and fomewhat bent j and, contrary to 

 others of the genus, is rounding, and not fquare ; ridged only on 

 the top, and the point is fharp : the upper parts of the head and 

 neck are afh-coloured: hind head red : fides of the head, throat, 

 and fore part of the neck, pale yellow : on each fide of the head 

 is a ftripe of black, from the bafe of the lower jaw to the neck .1 

 back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, grey brown, tranfverfely flri- 

 ated with black lines : rump whitilh : breaft, belly, and fides, 

 whitilh yellow, each feather marked with a round black fpot at 

 the tip : on the middle of the breaft is a large crefcent of black : 

 the thighs, and upper and under tail coverts, black and white 

 mixed : quills brown, with yellow ihafts fpotted with brown 

 on the outer edge :' tail blackifh, outwardly edged with grey ; the 

 outer feather is dotted with whitilh on the margins ; the Ihafts of 

 all but the two middle feathers are yellow halfway from the bafe : 

 legs and claws brown. 



The female differs in having the crown and neck behind grey Female- 



brown : the hind head of a lefs vivid red:, and the greater quills 

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