WOODPECKER. 373 



Inhabits Cayenne, and from thence extends to Paraguay ; some- 

 times met with in the woods in numbers together. The natives call 

 it Ipecu ; about Guinea named Ouantou ; and by the Portuguese 

 Corta pao. 



38 —BUFF-CRESTED WOODPECKER— Pl. lix. 



Picus melanoleucus, Ind. Om. i. 226. Gm. Lin. i. 426. Gen. Zool. ix. 155. pl. 31. 

 Charpentier, a huppe couleur de Paille, Voy. cTAzara, iv. No. 251. 

 Buff-crested Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 558. pl. 25. 



LENGTH twelve inches and half. Bill two inches, brownish 

 horn-colour ; head crested ; the crown as far as the middle black, 

 the feathers of the rest elongated, and buff-colour ; the whole 

 bounded on the sides and behind with black ; the rest of the head, 

 neck, back, and wings, in general blackish brown ; outer edge of the 

 wing, about the middle white ; from the gape begins a stripe of white 

 passing under the eye, and continuing on each side of the neck, 

 growing considerably broader as it proceeds downwards, and finally 

 meeting at the beginning of the back, and there forming a large 

 space ; middle of the chin dusky white, the lower part of the back 

 is also mottled with white; breast, belly, and vent dirty white, 

 marked across with dusky black narrow bars ; quills, tail, and legs, 

 black. 



Inhabits Surinam. Described from a specimen in the Leverian 

 Museum. It has many things in common with the lineated species, 

 but differs in the colour of the crest ; and the neck before, the middle 

 of the chin excepted, is wholly black. I find, that in some speci- 

 mens the lower part of the back has no mottling of white. 



