WOODPECKER. 3G5 



29— YELLOW-NECKED WOODPECKER. 



LENGTH eight and a half or nine inches. Bill one inch and 

 a quarter, white, tipped with black ; general colour of the plumage 

 olive-green; on the nape a large greenish yellow crescent; lore 

 crimson, chin and throat dirty white, spotted with brown and white, 

 margined all round with crimson ; fore part of the neck, and upper 

 part of the breast green, like the back, but the breast is much deeper 

 than the neck ; from thence all beneath white, with dusky spots like 

 crescents, quite to the vent ; thighs plain white ; the lower part of 

 the back, the quills, and tail are dusky brown, or blackish ; but the 

 bases of the prime quills incline to ferruginous, and several of the 

 inner ones have the outer webs, near the ends, yellowish ; second 

 quills in general green, with the inner webs dusky ; insides of the 

 wings black, spotted with white ; legs black. 



Inhabits India. — Brought into England by M. de Fichtel. 



30— GREY-HEADED WOODPECKER. 



Picus Norvegicus, Ind. Orn. i. 236. Bris. iv. 18. Id. Svo. ii. 46. Klein. 28. Gerin. 



t. 177. Gen. Zool.ix. 188. 

 Picus canus, Gm. Lin. i. 434. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 239. Id. Ed. ii. p. 394. 

 Grey-headed Green Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 583. Edw. pi. 65. Arct. Zool. ii. 277. 



SIZE of the Green Woodpecker. Bill dull ash-colour, yellowish 

 at the base ; head, and hind part of the neck, fine ash-colour ; the 

 forehead obscurely marked with four or five small red spots ; nostrils 

 covered with black bristles, turning forwards ; from the corner of the 

 mouth is a streak of black, passing backwards, like a whisker ; back 

 and scapulars blue-green ; rump yellow ; wing coverts yellowish 



