WOODPECKER. 353 



11.'— JAVAN WOODPECKER. 



Picus Javensis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 175. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. General colour of the plumage black ; 

 feathers of the head elongated into a crest, which is crimson ; at the 

 sides of the neck a crimson stripe ; belly testaceous, but not bright 

 The female is about one inch longer than the male, and paler in 

 colour, the head variegated above with blackish green and white ; 

 under the eyes a scarlet mark ; the colour of the belly uniform with 

 the rest of the body, and the throat and lower part of the neck are 

 Isabella yellow. 



Inhabits Java, called there Platuk-ayam. 



12.— CAPE WOODPECKER. 



Picus Capensis, Lid. Orn. i. 237. Gm. Lin. i. 430. 



Pic a. tete grise du Cap de B. Esp. Buf. vii. 26. PL enl. 786 female 



Le Pic olive, Levail. Afr. vi. p. 16. pi. 248, 249. Male & female. 



Red-rumped Woodpecker, Gen. Zool. ix. 194. 



Cape Woodpecker, Gen. Syn.W. 586. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill black ; head olive grey ; 

 from the middle of the crown, and all behind the nape crimson; 

 back, neck, and breast, olive brown; rump and upper tail coverts 

 red; quills dusky within; tail black; legs lead-colour. Levaillant 

 observes, that the under parts are olive, inclining to yellow. The 

 female smaller, the colours less brilliant, and the red less lively ; but 

 has the hindhead and rump red as the male ; in the first year, only 

 the middle of the hindhead is red, and in very old birds the breast 

 has a tinge of red ; the females have no red on the head the first 

 year, this colour being only seen on the rump. 



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