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general colour of the plumage black ; hindhead red ; edges of the 

 wings, and lower belly white ; legs yellowish. 

 The female has the head wholly black. 



A. — Length six inches and a half; breadth eleven. The bill pale 

 yellow ; plumage in general black, but the wing feathers are mostly 

 margined with dusky white ; belly, thighs, and vent, white ; the eye 

 placed in a small patch of white, equally surrounding it ; at the 

 hindhead a broad crescent of crimson ; legs pale yellow. 



The female is much the same, but wants the red on the hindhead. 



Inhabits Georgia; met with in some parts of the back and inland 

 oak woods. 



48— RED-CROWNED WOODPECKER. 



Picus hirundinaceus, Ind. Orn. i. 227. 8. (3. 



Petit Pic noir, Buf. vii. p. 54. PI. enl. 694. 2. Gen. Syn. ii. 559. 7. A. 



SIZE of the Wryneck. Plumage on the head, neck, and upper 

 parts black ; on the crown a patch of red ; over the eye a white 

 streak, and towards the hind head a mixture of yellow ; down the 

 middle of the breast, as far as the belly, a dash of red ; belly and 

 sides mixed black and grey ; lower part of back, and rump white ; 

 the rest of the plumage black, glossed with blue on the head and 

 body. 



The female has neither red nor yellow on the head ; and some 

 specimens, with no red on the crown, have a circle of yellow en- 

 compassing the head ; probably these are young males. 



A. — Length eight inches and a half. Bill dusky, pale at the 



base ; plumage in general black ; on the middle of the crown a red 



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