372 WOODPECKER. 



crown crimson ; lore straw-colour, passing over the eyes, and down 

 the sides of the neck; from the lower mandible a black streak, com- 

 municating with the fore part of the neck, which is black ; back, 

 wings, scapulars, lower belly, and tail black ; upper half of the 

 quills, and secondaries white, the rest black ; belly and thighs the 

 same, marked with faint, transverse bars of white ; legs black. 



This was found at Gloucester House, in lat. 50. 31. north, and 

 96. 3. west long. 387 miles up Albany River, in January, called by 

 the natives, May-May. 



37— LINEATED WOODPECKER. 



Picus lineatus, Ind. Orn.'i. 226. Lin. i. 174. Gm.Lin.i. 425. Gen. Zool.'ix. p. 152. 



- niger Caj-anensis, Bris. iv. 31. 1. 1. f. 2. 7rf.8vo.ii. 51. 

 Tlauhquechultototl, Raii Syn. 164 ? 

 Pic noir huppe de Cayenne, Biif. vii. 50. PI. ml. 717. 

 Autre Pic varie, Ferm. Surin.u. 170? 

 Le Charpentier noir, Voy.d 1 Azara,\\. No. 248. 

 Lineated Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 556. 



SIZE of the Green Woodpecker; length near fourteen inches. 

 Bill horn-colour; head and nape of a beautiful red, the feathers 

 elongated into a crest; along the jaw a stripe of the same; upper 

 parts of the body black ; cheeks the same, inclining to ash-colour ; 

 from the corners of the mouth a line of white, growing broader, and 

 passing down on each side, meets in the middle of the back ; throat 

 rufous white, dashed down the shaft of each feather with black ; 

 fore part of the neck and breast black, the feathers margined with 

 rufous white at the tips ; belly, vent, and thighs, rufous white, striated 

 transversely with black ; the edges of the wings, and beneath them 

 white ; quills black, the inner webs, for one-third of the length from 

 the base, white ; tail cuneiform, black ; legs grey. 



