374 WOODPECKER. 



39.— CHILI WOODPECKER. 



Picus lignarius, Ind. Orn. i. 224. Gm. Lin. i. 424. Molin. Chil. 209. Id. Fr. Ed. 215. 

 Chili Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 140. Gen. Zool. ix. 157. 



NEARLY as large as a Blackbird. Crown crested, red ; body 

 banded blue and white; the bill so strong, as not only to enable the 

 bird to make holes in decayed trees, but even in living and sound 

 ones, in which it makes the nest; and is said by this means to destroy 

 fruit-bearing trees. 



Inhabits Chili. 



40— RED-NECKED WOODPECKER. 



Picus rubricollis, Ind. Orn. i. 226. Gm. Lin. i. 426. Gen. Zoo!, ix. 159. 



Le Pic a Cou rouge, Buf. vii. 53. 



Grand Pic huppe a tete rouge, PL enl. 612. 



Le Charpentier a huppe et Cou rouges, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 250. 



Red-necked Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 558. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill pale ; irides yellow ; head and 

 neck, as far as the breast, crimson ; hind part of the head crested ; 

 back, wings, and tail deep brown, with a little mixture of cream- 

 colour on the wings; beneath the last pale rufous, a little banded ; 

 under parts of the body deep cream-colour, in some specimens 

 transversely banded with black ; legs lead-colour. 



Inhabits Brazil, Cayenne, Guiana, and Paraguay. Buflbn calls 

 the under parts fulvous, which may probably arise from difference of 

 sex. The above description was taken from one in the Leverian 

 Museum. 



