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toes before, and one behind ; but in one drawing I found a second 

 toe backwards, though very small, and placed higher up than could 

 at all be of use in grasping a branch, or climbing; hence we may 

 suspect this bird sometimes to be complete with four toes, and other 

 specimens to have only one behind; in the same manner as the Grey 

 Sandpiper and Golden Plover, sometimes deviate from the common 

 rule, the former having a mere claw only, instead of the hind toe 

 complete ; the latter with the addition of a hind claw, contrary to 

 the rest of the Genus; but in the PI. enlam. I observe this Wood- 

 pecker to have four complete toes ; and in some drawings in Lord 

 Mountnorris's possession, made in the Province of Oude, is one of 

 these birds with two hind toes, though the inner one very short. This 

 last was named Cawtkhoraw, and in another drawing, Cut-currolloh. 

 This Species inhabits Bengal, and several other parts of India, 

 and is a very beautiful bird; called in some places, Turca-pikilia-pitta; 

 found at Calcutta the whole year ; the nest in the holes of trees, lays 

 three or four eggs in Jyt ; the young hatched in Assam. 



A.— Specht de Ceylon, Naturf. xiii. 14. t. iv. Id. xvii. 16. Ind. Orn. i. 235. 29. B. 

 Gen.Syn.u. 580. 26. 



Length eleven inches and a half. Bill one inch and a half, lead- 

 colour, with a pale base; on the top of the head some white spots; 

 the upper part of the back black, which is yellowish in the former ; 

 the middle of the back, and that part of the wings, which in the 

 other is brown, in this is of as fine a red as the crest; throat and 

 breast brown, irregularly spotted with white ; greater quills brown, 

 dotted with white ; tail brown, the middle feathers four inches long; 

 the outer three ; quills reach to near the middle of the tail. 



This came from Ceylon,* and is there called Kerella ; makes the 

 the nest in old trees, as others, and feeds on insects. 



* Probably too from China, as it was among some drawings done there, but the toes were 

 erroneously placed, three before and one behind. In the plate referred to in Naturf or scher, 

 the bird had two toes before, and two behind. 



