354 WOODPECKER. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts of Africa, and 

 Senegal ; found on the eastern coast of Africa, from the River Duywen 

 Hock, quite to Caffre Land, also in the inner parts ; lays four white 

 eggs, and both sexes contribute to hatch the young in turns, 



One of these, in Mr. Bullock's Museum, is spotted on the outer 

 webs of the lesser quills with dusky white, and the same on the 

 inner, but larger; greater quills and tail feathers brown, the two 

 outer ones of the latter marked, as the quills, with dusky white, and 

 the belly obscurely barred with brown. 



A. — Cape Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 141. 



Head, neck, and all beneath pale grey; back and wings olive 

 brown; crown, rump, and belly, crimson; wings and tail dusky; 

 bill and legs black. 



Inhabits Abyssinia. I observed this among the late Mr. Bruce's 

 drawings of birds, where it is named Wye-wa, and suspect it to 

 represent a very old male. M. Buffon's figure of it in the PL enlnm. 

 is taken from a young female. 



13— HALF-BILLED WOODPECKER. 



Picus semirostris, Ind. Orn. i. 238. Lin. i. 175. Gm. Lin. i. 435. Mus. Ad. Fr. i. 16. 

 Half-billed Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 586. 



LINNiEUS describes this as of the size of a Black Woodpecker. 

 Bill pale ; the upper mandible much shorter than the under, very 

 pointed, and sharp at the tip ; * head brown, each feather tipped 



* Pallas has given his opinion concerning this bird, which, as far as relates to the bill, 

 he thinks must be a Lusus Naturts, and unnatural ; he mentions a specimen of the Common 

 Green Woodpecker, in Germany, wherein the upper mandible was scarcely half as long as 



