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ZYGODACTYLI. 
Family PICID^F. ( Bonaparte. ) 
Genus Picus. ( Linnceus.) 
WHITE-EUMPED WOODPECKER. 
Picus leucoywtus. 
Picus leuconotus, 
“ leucotus, 
“ cirris, 
Pic varie a dos hlanc, 
TPeissruckiger Puntsprecht, 
Picchio vario iMassimo, 
Meyer and Wolff, 1810. 
Temminck, 1820. 
Bechstein. 
Pallas. 
Or THE Prench. 
Of the Germans. 
Stor. 
Specific Characters. — Plumage varied; the rump wliite, and the 
upper tail coverts crimson and white. Length ten inches and 
three quarters; from carpal joint to tip of wing five inches and a 
half; tarsus one inch; beak (upper mandible) one inch and two 
fifths; tail three inches and a half. 
The White-rumped Woodpecker is an inliabitant of 
the most northern parts of Euroj)e and Siberia. It is 
not rare in Pussia, Poland, and Prussia, extending 
through Esthonia, Courland, and Einland, It is some- 
times found in Silesia, and occasionally in the western 
and southern parts of Germany. One individual is 
recorded as having been shot in the Pyrenees, by M. 
