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mixture of yellowish on the forehead, round the eyes, and chin ; the 

 greater wing coverts and quills marked with large spots of white, on 

 the sides ; tail feathers the same, with three patches of white on the 

 margin of each, and are blunt at the ends ; chin and throat brown, 

 and dusky white in waves, with a reddish tinge ; breast and belly 

 dusky white, with a deep tinge of reddish on the breast ; the legs 

 lead-colour. 



Inhabits India, and called in Oude, Cautkhorau. — From the 

 drawings of Lord Mountnorris. 



16.— NUBIAN WOODPECKER. 



Picus Nubicus, Ind. Orn. i. 233. Gm. Lin. i. 438. Gen. Zool. ix. 180. 

 Pic tigre, Levail. Afr. vi. p. 19. pi. 250. 



Epeiche de Nubie onde et tachete, Buf. vii. 66. PI. enl. 667. 

 Nubian Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 576. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. The bill black ; irides pale 

 brown ; crown black, dotted with white ; forehead brownish ; from 

 that to the eye whitish ; chin the same ; the hindhead crimson, and 

 somewhat crested ; the rest of the neck and breast whitish, marked 

 with black spots, shaped like tears ; upper part of the body agreeably 

 and irregularly mixed with white, rufous, and brown ; tail barred 

 rufous and brown ; thighs and vent whitish ; legs blue. 



Inhabits the Desarts of Nubia. 



One, supposed to be the male, had a reddish streak from the 

 corners of the mouth, spotted with black, in the direction of the 

 jaw ; top of the head wholly crimson, with greenish waves ; hindhead 

 crimson, the feathers soft, and elongated, so as to form a crest. 



The female marked as the male, but without any red at the top 

 of the head ; and the mustachoe of the male does not appear under 

 a year. 



