378 WOODPECKER. 



jaw a broad kind of purplish whisker, crossed with numerous black 

 lines ; upper parts of the body yellowish, crossed with narrow black 

 bands ; beneath yellowish, spotted black ; quills black, barred with 

 yellow; tail black, the two middle feathers plain, the rest crossed with 

 fifteen or sixteen yellow bars ; legs black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. There seems much affinity between this and 

 the last, yet it may be doubted; as Brisson's bird is expressly said to 

 have the tail entirely black. 



46— YELLOW-CRESTED WOODPECKER. 



Picus flavescens, Ind. Orn.'i. 239. Gm. Lin.'i. 427. Gen. Zool.'vs.. 201. 

 Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 589. Broivn III. 1. 12, 



SIZE of a Jackdaw. Head covered with a long loose pendant, 

 pale yellow crest ; throat, cheeks, and hind part of the neck, of the 

 same colour ; back and wings black, transversely marked with broad, 

 light yellow bars ; the tail coverts high yellow ; belly and tail black ; 

 thighs, and inner wing coverts pale yellow; legs dark brown. 



Inhabits Brazil, among the Airi palm trees ; it is a very solitary 

 Species. 



47.— LESSER BLACK WOODPECKER. 



Picus hirundinaceus, Ind.Orn. i. 227. Lin.'i. 174. Gm. Lin.'i. 426. Gen. Zoo/. ix. 196. 

 - flavipes, Gm. Lin. i. 438. 



niger novae Anglioe, Bris. iv. 24. Id. 8vo. ii. 48. Klein, 27. 4. 



Le Petit Pic noir, Buf. vii. 54. 



Yellow-legged Woodpecker, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 167. female. 



Lesser Black Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 559. Albin, iii. pi. 23. 



SIZE not much larger than a Swallow ; length five inches and a 

 half. Bill one inch and a quarter long, and brown ; irides whitish ; 



