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GECINUS CANUS. 



(GREY-HEADED GREEN WOODPECKER.) 



Picus canus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 434 (1788, ex Edw.). 



Picus norvegicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 236 (1790). 



Picus viridi-canus, Meyer & Wolf, Taschenb. Vogelk. i. p. 120 (1810). 



Picus chlorio, Pall. Zoogr. Eosso-As. i. p. 408 (1811). 



Picus caniceps, Nilss. Orn. Suec. i. p. 105 (1817). 



Gecinus canus, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542. 



Chloropicus canus, Malh. Monogr. Pic. ii. p. 124 (1862). 



Pie cendre, French ; Carpintero, Spanish ; Grauspecht, German ; Grahofdad Hackspett, 

 Swedish ; Graaspet, Norwegian ; Harmajapaa Tikka, Finnish ; Dyatell siedoi, Russian ; 

 Drieciot zielonosuoy, Zotna zielonosuva, Polish. 



Figures notabiles. 



Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, ii. pi. 65 ; Werner, Atlas, Zygodactyles, pi. 202 ; Naum. Vog. 

 Deutschl. v. pi. 133 ; Gould, B. of Eur. iii. pi. 227 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. pi. ix. fig. 2 ; Schl. 

 Vog. Nederl. pi. 49 ; Reich. Hand-b. Pic. pi. dexx. figs. 4135-36 ; Malh. Monogr. Pic. iv. 

 pi. lxxxi. ; Bree, B. of Eur. iii. p. 136; Sundev. Sv. Fogl. pi. xxii. fig. 3. 



cj ad. pileo antico lsete coccineo : pileo postico et laterali sordide cano, illo vix virescente lavato : regione 

 oculari paullo albido vario : loris nigricantibus : setis nares obtectentibus saturate canis, nigro termi- 

 natis : vitt& mystacali nigra : dorso viridi, uropygio et supracaudalibus lsete flavicantibus : tectricibus 

 alarum minimis dorso concoloribus, reliquis magis olivascentibus : ala spuria et primariorum tectricibus 

 brunneis, extus maculis albicantibus viridi lavatis notatis : remigibus brunneis, extiis albido maculatis, 

 primariorum interiorum maculis viridi lavatis, secundariis viridioribus, obsolete viridi transfasciatis : 

 cauda brunnea versus apicem cinerascente, rectricibus nonnullis exterioribus flavo apicatis, duabus cen- 

 tralibus obsolete cinerascente transfasciatis : subtiis pallide viridis, gutture canescente : subalaribus 

 albidisj brunneo transfasciatis : alffi facie inferiore albido et brunnescente regulariter et alternate trans - 

 fasciata : rostro plumbeo, ad basin mandibulse viridi-flavo : pedibus viridescenti-plumbeis : iride rubro- 

 brunnea. 



2 mari omninb similis, sed pileo canOj coccineo absente. 



d hornot. similis feminee adultse, sed pileo magis viridi lavato, parte antica plumis paucis coccineis aut 

 aurantiacis varia. 



Adult Male. Entire head and neck grey, tbe plumes covering the nostrils tipped with black; fore part of 

 the head bright crimson, the hinder part of the crown slightly streaked with blackish ; feathers round 

 the eye whitish ; lores blackish, as also a moustachial stripe ; back green, a faint shade of which colour 

 pervades the grey nape and hinder neck; the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright golden- 



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