360 WOODPECKER. 



In the female the red mark on the sides of the nape is much 

 smaller; the back more sparingly spotted with white; wings and 

 tail much the same, but the feathers of the latter have more white 

 spots. 



Inhabits India ; the former found at Meeah Gunge, in February, 

 the latter at Cawnpore, in May ; these seem to be much allied to the 

 Brown Species. 



20 —GUINEA WOODPECKER. 



Picus antivolans, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxxi. Gerin. t. 173. 

 Guinea Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. Sup.n. 141. 



THIS is a doubtful species, and, from the figure, it is uncertain, 

 whether it is not a Jacamar. The bill is longer than usual in Wood- 

 peckers, and black ; crown and chin bluish green ; body dull red, 

 inclining to brown on the back ; sides of the neck mixed with yellow; 

 wings and tail dull blue; quills brown ; legs pale. 



Said to inhabit Guinea, only seen in the engraving above referred to. 



21. -LONG-BILLED WOODPECKER. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill one inch and three 

 quarters long, slender, and brown ; the under mandible shorter than 

 the upper by a quarter of an inch ; the nostrils covered with a small 

 whitish tuft; crown brown, with small pale spots, and a few crimson 

 feathers intermixed ; neck behind, and back, black and olive, in 

 irregular bars ; rump and tail coverts black and white ; wings black, 

 several of the coverts with the outer webs white, forming two patches; 

 quills spotted with white on both webs ; tail cuneiform, black; the 



