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dashed with brown : sides of the head white ; beneath the ear a dash 

 of brown ; vent white ; tail brown ; the feathers spotted on each web 

 with three white dots, quills also spotted with white ; legs dusky. 

 Inhabits the Molucca Islands. 



A.— Little Brown Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. Sup. 109. Ind. Om. i. 234. 25. B. 



Length five inches. Bill pale ; head white, except the crown, 

 and a large patch under the eye, both of which are brown ; body 

 above brown black, sparingly spotted with white ; beneath wholly 

 white ; legs blue. 



Inhabits India. We met with a fine drawing of this bird, among 

 others, in the collection of the late Mr. Middleton ; one of the same 

 was also in that of General Davies ; probably a female. 



19— CAWNPORE WOODPECKER. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill bluish ; head, sides, and 

 back of the neck, pale ash-colour ; round the eye a pale, reddish, 

 carunculated rim ; behind the eye a broad white streak, passing on 

 each side, and meeting at the beginning of the back ; feathers of the 

 crown somewhat elongated, and falling behind ; above the eye, on 

 each side the nape, a crimson streak, half an inch long; back and 

 wings brown, the first crossed with whitish bands, formed of spots, 

 the latter also marked with largish white spots ; tail dusky black, 

 the feathers marked with six white spots, three on each margin ; all 

 the under parts of the body dusky white, with a few darker streaks 

 on the breast ; the tail is rather short, and the feathers more than 

 usually rounded at the tips ; the wings reach to very near the end 

 of it ; legs pale lead-colour. 



