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PICUS NUMIDICUS. 



(ALGERIAN PIED WOODPECKER.) 



Picus numidus, Malh. Mem. Acad. Roy. Metz, ii. p. 242 (1842). 



Leuconotopicus numidicus, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 375. 



Picus numidicus, Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 21 (1849). 



" Picus mauritanus, auct.," Brehm, Naumannia, 1856, p. 275. 



"Picus lunatus, auct," Brehm, Naumannia, 1856, p. 275. 



Picus jugurtha, Malh. Monogr. Picidse, i. p. 65. 



Pendrocopus numidicus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 34 (1863). 



Figures notabiles. 

 Malherbe, Monogr. Picid. iii. pi. xlviii. figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 



8 ad. niger : occipite coccineo : fronte fulvescente : facie laterali albida : fascia mystacali et colli lateribus 

 totis nigris, post regionem auricularem pileo conjunctis : plaga triangulari ad latera postica colli 

 posita, alba : scapularibus albis : tectricibus alarum nigris, dorso concoloribus, medianis late albo 

 terminatis, plagam alarem albam formantibus, majoribus fere omnino nigris : remigibus nigris, versus 

 apicem pallidioribus, extiis et intus maculis albis transnotatis : cauda nigra, rectricibus exterioribus 

 tribus albo irregulariter notatis : subtus albidus, torque pectorali nigra, valde coccinea, mixta : abdo- 

 mine centrali et imo coccineis : subalaribus albis, paullo nigro variis : rostro cyanescenti-plumbeo, 

 mandibula, pallidiore : pedibus plumbeis : iride rubra. 



2 mari similis, sed crista occipitali absente. 



8 juv. similis adultis, sed fronte sericeo-nigra : pileo antico coccineo, occipite nigro : abdomine imo pallidiore 

 coccineo. 



Adult Male. Above black ; occiput crimson ; forehead fulvous ; sides of the face greyish white, as also a 

 triangular patch on the sides of the neck ; between the white of the ear-coverts and this patch runs a 

 broad line of black, connecting the hinder part of the crown with the moustache and sides of the neck, 

 which are also black ; scapulars and median wing-coverts white, forming a broad oblique white band 

 across the wing; the rest of the wing-coverts black; quills black, inclining to brown at the tips, 

 spotted on both inner and outer webs with white ; tail black, the three outermost feathers irregularly 

 marked with dull white, this colour predominating on the outermost feather; under surface of the 

 body dull white, with a broad pectoral gorget of crimson, slightly mixed with black ; the centre of 

 the abdomen and vent crimson ; under wing-coverts white, with faint black mottlings ; bill dark blue- 

 grey, the lower mandible paler; feet leaden-grey; iris reddish. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-2, 

 wing 4-8, tail 3"4, tarsus 09. 



Adult Female. Exactly similar to the male, but the head entirely black, with no crimson occipital crest. 



Young. Differs from the adults in having a black forehead and the fore part of the head crimson, the hinder 

 part being black. 



