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PICID^. 



Small brown Tamatia? with the head rufous, the lores and collar 

 black ; the nape, a stripe above the eyes, but not the throat, 

 fulvous ; a spot on the breast white ; the wing-coverts mar- 

 gined by fulvous and black ; the abdomen brownish, fasciolated 

 with black. 



Cyphos macrodactylus. Sjoix, Avium Nova Spec. p. 51 .j)l. xxxix. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



Length five inches. 



GENUS CCXXVL— PICUS, Linne. WOODPECKER. 



Rostrum capite longius, po- 



lyedrum, rectum, apice 



cuneatum. 

 Nares pennis setaceis re- 



cumbentibus obtectse. 

 Lingua teres, lumbricifor- 



mis, longissima, mucro- 



nata. 

 Pedes tetradactyli. 

 Rectrices rigidae, acutae. 



BeaJc longer than the head, 

 many-sided, straight, its 

 tip wedged. 



Nostrils covered with recum- 

 bent setaceous feathers. 



Tongue round, worm-like, 

 very long, mucronate. 



Feet four-toed. 

 Tail-feathers stiff, acute. 



M. Spix describes a considerable number of new 

 species in the Avium Nova Species, &c., which I 

 have not been able to introduce for the reasons before 

 stated. 



Sp. 1. Pi. martius. &7q;/«. v. ix. p. 148. pi. 29. — Britain? and 



Europe, 

 Sp. 2. Pi. viridis. Stepli. v. ix. p. lS3.pl. 35. — Britain. 

 Sp. 3. PI. major, Steph. v. ix.p. 163.^^. 33. — Britain. 

 Sp. 4. Pi, minor, Steph. v. ix. p. 166. pi. 34. — Britain. 

 Sp. 5. Pi. Bengalensis. Steph. v. ix. p. 185. ;;/. 35*.— Pi. Goensis. 



Steph. V. ix.;;. 187. pi- 35**.— India. 



