170 piciD^. 



pair, which have yellowish shafts and dusky tips : 

 wings inside pale orange : legs and claws dusky- 

 black. 



Sp. 35. Pi, Portoricensis. Sfeph. v. ix. p. 217- pL 37. — Porto 

 Rico. 



Sp. 36. Pi. melanoleucus. Steph. v. ix. p. 203, pi. 85.*****— 

 Cayenne, 



Sp. 37. Pi. bicolor, Stvain. Zool. Illust. v. i. pi. 38. 



Pi, alhus, collo suprh, tergo, alts, lineaque temporalis nigrisj rectri- 



cihus nigris; basi maculisque marginis interioris alhis. 

 White Woodpecker with the neck above, the back, wings, and a 



line on the temples, black ; the tail-feathers black j the base 



and spots on the inner margin white. 

 Picus melanopterus. Pr. Max. Trav. i. p. 140.'' 



Inhabits Brazil. Length eleven inches and a 

 half: beak black : orbits (in the dead bird) yellowish- 

 white : the entire head, nape, sides of the neck, rump, 

 and tail-coverts, and all the under plumage, pure white, 

 with a tinge of yellow down the middle of the belly : 

 a narrow black line commences at the ears, and is 

 carried down on each side, joining the black of the 

 upper neck : the wings and remaining upper plumage 

 are of a uniform dark sooty black : the tips of the 

 quills much paler and brownish : tail black, banded 

 with white at the base ; the two outer feathers on each 

 side with alternate black and white bands on the 

 inner web their whole length : feet and claws dirty 

 greenish. 



