368 WOODPECKER. 



the same ; coverts, and rump greenish ; under part of the body 

 transversely undulated with grey brown, and dull white ; the two 

 middle tail feathers black, the other the same, spotted with yellow ; 

 legs dusky. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



34— WHITE-BILLED WOODPECKER. 



Picus principalis, Ind.Orn.i. 225. Lin.\. 173. Gm.Lin.'i. 425. Borowsk. ii. 135. 



Vieill. Am.il. 56. pi. 109. Gere. Zoo/, ix. p. 150. pL36, Tern. Man. Ed.u. Anal. 



p. lxxix. 

 Picus niger Carolinensis, Bris.iv. 26. Id. 8vo. ii. 49. 



imbrifcetus, Rail 162. Will. 301. 



Quatotomomi, Rati 162. Will. 94. t. 22. Id. Engl. 390. t. 22. 



Pic noir huppe de la Caroline, PL enl. 690. Bvf. vii. p. 46. 



King of the Woodpeckers, Kalm. Trav. ii. p. 85 ? 



Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Amer. Orn. pi. 29. male. 



White-billed Woodpecker, Gen. Syn.W. 553. male. Id. Sup. 105. female, Cates. Car, 



i. 1. 16. Arct. Zoo/, ii. No. 156. Klein. 26. 2. Bartr. Trav. p. 287. Nat. Misc. 



pi. 497. 



THIS is from sixteen to twenty inches in length, thirty-one in 

 breadth, and nearly as stout as a Crow, weighing more than twenty 

 ounces. The bill white as ivory, three inches long, and channelled; 

 irides yellow ; on the hindhead an erect, pointed crest, of a fine red 

 colour, some of the feathers two inches long ; general colour of the 

 plumage deep black, but the lower parts of the back, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts are white ; from behind the eye arises a white stripe, 

 which passes down on each side of the neck, and back, beyond the 

 middle, and ends in a point ; the four first prime quills are black; 

 the fifth has a white tip, and two spots of white on the inner web : 

 the sixth and seventh with the ends, and inner webs, white ; all the 

 other quills wholly white, as are the under wing coverts ; tail very 

 stiff, the feathers greatly curving inwards, and wholly black ; the 

 legs black. 



