358 WOODPECKER. 



Found in the forests of Hottniqua, and about the River Gamtoos, 

 but less common ; lays four bluish white eggs, spotted with brown. 

 M. Levaillant says, the male is eight inches long, and the female 

 less ; and that probably the one figured in the PI. enl. is a female. 



17.— CARDINAL WOODPECKER. 



Picus Cardinalis, Ind.Orn.'i. 233. Gm. Lin.'i. 438. Gen. Zool.ix. 176. 

 Pic Cardinal de Lucon, Son. Voy.11. t. 25. 

 Grand Pic varie de Lucjon, Buf. vii. 67. 

 Cardinal Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 576. 



SIZE of the Green Woodpecker. Bill blackish, feathers round 

 the base greenish grey ; crown and hindhead bright red ; on each 

 side from the eye behind, and down the neck, almost to the wing, a 

 stripe of white; back and wing coverts black, but the feathers of the 

 upper part of the back and neck adjoining, are margined with white ; 

 wings spotted with the same; quills and tail black, with yellow 

 shafts ; the greater quills spotted with yellow on the edges, and the 

 lesser barred with white; tail black, spotted with white; throat, 

 breast, and belly, white, with longitudinal black spots ; legs blackish ; 



Inhabits the Isle of Luconia. 



18.— BROWN WOODPECKER. 



Picus Moluccensis, Ind.Orn.'i. 233. Gm. Lin. i. 439. Gen. Zool.ix. 178. | 

 Petit Epeiche brun des Moluques, Buf. vii. 68. PI. enl. 748. ii. 

 Brown Woodpecker, GeH.5yn.ii. 577- 



SIZE of the Little Woodpecker. Bill dusky; body above 

 brownish black, waved with white ; beneath whitish, perpendicularly 



