WOODPECKER. 367 



32— ORANGE WOODPECKER. 



Picus aurantius, Ind. Orn. i. 237. Lin. i. 174. Gm. Lin. i. 430. 



Capitis bonaj Spei, Bris. iv. 78. t. 6. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 50. Gerin. 1. 175. 



Pic du Cap de bonne Esperance, Buf. vii. 24. 



Orange Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 585. Gen. Zool. ix. 195. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill deep lead-colour ; crown 

 and hind head red ; the feathers of both long and narrow ; on each 

 side, from behind the eye to the hind head, a white stripe ; another 

 from the nostrils passes under the eyes, down the sides of the neck ; 

 the hind part, and sides of which are blackish ; cheeks, throat, and 

 fore part of the neck, dirty grey, the feathers margined with blackish ; 

 upper part of the back fine golden orange-colour ; scapulars golden 

 olive, tinged with orange ; lower part of the back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts blackish ; breast, belly, sides, and thighs dirty white, 

 the feathers margined with brown ; under tail coverts the same, 

 margined with black, and a transverse stripe of the same ; wing 

 coverts bluish brown ; on the tips of some of them a dirty grey spot; 

 the greater ones, next the body, gilded olive, and some of them 

 spotted in the same manner ; those farthest from the body are plain 

 black-brown ; quills dark brown, some of them spotted with dirty 

 white ; tail black ; legs pale lead-colour. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



33— GOLD-BACKED WOODPECKER. 



Picus Senegalensis, Ind. Orn. i. 237. Gm. Lin. i. 430. Gen. Zool. ix. 198. 

 Petit Pic raye du Senegal, Buf. vii. 25. PI. enl. 345. 2. 

 Gold-backed Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 586. 



NOT much bigger than a Sparrow. Bill dusky ; crown red ^ 

 forehead and sides brown ; the back golden fulvous yellow ; quills 



