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LINE A TED WOODPECKER. 



-f Picus lineatus, Linn. 



(Not figured.) 



A specimen of a Woodpecker sent from the Columbia river by Dr. 

 Meredith Gairdner to Professor Jameson of Edinburgh, who kindly 

 lent it to me for the purpose of being described, I found to be the Picus 

 lineatus of Linn.s:tjs, a species which appears to be very extensively dis- 

 tributed, being, according to various authors, plentiful in Cayenne, Guiana, 

 Brazil, and even Paraguay. The specimen, which was shot near Fort 

 Vancouver, is an adult male, but has been injured in the wings. Along with 

 it were specimens of Picus Harrisii and Picus ruber, shot in the same 

 neighbourhood. I hope to be able to give a figure of this species at the end 

 of the present work. 



Picus lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 174. 



Lineated Woodpecker, Picus lineatus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 315. 



Male, 15, wing, 7 T V 



Columbia river. 



Adult Male. 



Bill nearly as long as the head, straight, strong, angulate, depressed at the 

 base, compressed toward the end, which is truncate, and laterally worn so as 

 to be wedge-shaped. Upper mandible with the dorsal line slightly convex, 

 the ridge very narrow and prominent, the sides concave at the base, the 

 lateral angles nearer the ridge than the edges, which are sharp and direct; 

 the point with two slight ridges on each side; lower mandible with the 

 angle long and narrow, the dorsal line ascending and straight, the ridge 

 narrow, the sides erect at the base, afterwards sloping outwards and convex, 

 the tip narrow; gap-line straight. Nostrils elliptical, covered by a tuft of 

 reversed bristly feathers. 



Head rather large, ovato-oblong; neck rather long and slender. Feet 

 short, stout; tarsus very short, scutellate before, scaly on the sides; two toes 

 before, two behind, the fourth being directed backwards; the first very 

 small, the third a little longer than the fourth, all scutellate above; claws 



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