348 WOODPECKER. 



B. — In the Leverian Museum was a beautiful Variety of this 

 bird, of a straw-colour, or pale yellow, every where, except on the 

 crown, which was faintly marked with red. This was shot at 

 Belvoir Chace, the seat of the Duke of Rutland. 



5— BENGAL WOODPECKER. 



Picus Bengalensis, Ind. Ora.i. 235. Lin. i. 175. Gm. Lin. i. 433. Bris.iv. 14. Id. 



8vo.ii. 45. Klein, 28. 13. Gerin. 1. 179. Gen. Zool. ix. 185. pi. 35.* Lin. Trans. 



xiii. p. 176. 

 Pic verd de Bengale, Buf. vii. 23. PI. enl. 695. 

 Spotted Indian Woodpecker, Edw. pi. 182. 

 Bengal Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 580. Alb. iii. pi. 22. 



LESS than the Green Woodpecker ; length eight inches and a 

 half. Bill blackish ; top of the head black, spotted with white ; 

 hindhead furnished with a crimson crest; neck behind black ; throat, 

 and neck before, black and white irregularly mixed; in some black, 

 with white dots; breast, upper part of the belly, and sides white, 

 the feathers margined with brown ; lower belly, thighs, and vent 

 white ; sides of the head under the eye white ; from this a white line 

 passes down the neck ; the upper part of the back yellow, the lower 

 dull green ; under wing coverts, and upper lesser wing coverts, deep 

 brown, spotted with white ; the rest of the wing green, spotted with 

 lighter green ; quills black, barred with white ; tail greenish black ; 

 legs blackish. 



The other sex has the crown black, but spotted with red instead 

 of white; hindhead crested, red; behind the eye a black streak 

 dotted with dusky white, and passing to the hindhead ; the rest as 

 in the former description. 



Individuals vary in size, some being ten or eleven inches in 

 length ; and in several drawings from India, I can only observe two 



