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with yellowish, making the head appear spotted ; body above brown, 

 inclining to ash ; beneath white ; wings brown ; the outer edges of 

 the quills spotted with white ; tail brown. 

 Inhabits India. 



14— DOUBLE-BEARDED WOODPECKER. 



Le Pic a double Moustache, Leuail. Afr. p. 22. pi. 251, 252. 



THE bill in this bird is black. Irides deep red ; plumage 

 above olive, varying in different lights to brown, yellow, and grey, 

 especially towards the neck and rump, where the grey is most pre- 

 dominant, and appears on the margins of the feathers at the ends ; 

 back part of the head crimson ; sides, under the eyes, white, with 

 two black streaks in the direction of the jaw; middle of the throat 

 white, as far as the lower part of the neck ; beneath the body olive 

 brown, waved with dirty white; the quills olive brown, inclining 

 outwardly to yellow, and marked with yellow spots ; tail as the quills. 



The female is smaller, and the waves less distinct, more inclined 

 to brown ; top of the head black, instead of red. 



The young male has but little red on the head, and coloured like 

 the old female ; but very old females have a small red patch on the 

 head like the males. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and found in abundance 

 throughout the Caffre Country, on the bodies of Mimosa trees, 

 and the strokes with the bill may be heard far off; lays four dull 

 white eggs, and both sexes assist in incubation. 



the under, and gives two instances of the same in the Kingsfisher Genus, and one in the 

 Oyster Catcher. — See Spicileg. vi; p. 12. 



To which I may add, the same circumstance in a White Crow, in the Leverian Museum; 

 in this, the upper mandible was just formed the same. However, we are still indebted to 

 Linnaeus for a Species not before described nor figured by any author, as far as we can 

 find at present. 



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