WOODPECKER. 385 



56— BRAZILIAN WOODPECKER. 



Picus Brasiliensis, Brasilian Woodpecker, Wern. Trans, iii. p. 291. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill near one inch, very strait, sides 

 angulated; irides yellow ; head, as far as the nape, crimson; orbits 

 and cheeks olive brown ; beneath this, and commencing from the 

 nostrils, a narrow line of golden yellow, terminating with the neck ; 

 below it another stripe, crimson at the base of the lower mandible, 

 and olive beyond, ending with the former, leaving the chin and 

 throat yellow ; plumage in general above yellowish olive ; inner 

 shafts of the quills black, but the edges pale rufous, almost their 

 entire length ; inner wing coverts tawny ; breast, and beneath the 

 body tawny yellow, transversely banded with blackish lines ; tail 

 three inches and a half long, black, the feathers tinged with olive at 

 the base ; legs olivaceous. 



This was said to be a male. The female unknown. 



Inhabits South America ; met with in the dry and arid tracts of 

 the Province of Bahia, with the last described. 



57— VARIED WOODPECKER. 



Picus tricolor, Ind. Orn. i. 230. Gm. Lin. i. 437. Gerin. t. 178. Gen, Zool. ix. 175. 



— — varius Mexicanus major et minor, Bris. iv. 57. & 59. Id. 8vo. ii. 57, 58. 



Quauhchochopitli, Rati, 163. Fern. N. Hisp. Ch. 94 ?* 



Pica Mexicana, Seba. i. t. 64. 6. Klein, p. 62. 6. 



Jaculator cinereus, Klein, Av. 127. 2 ? 



L'Epeiche du Mexique, Buf. vii. 70. 



Varied Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 568. 



SIZE of the Middle Spotted Woodpecker. The whole body 

 covered with black feathers, transversely striated with white ; breast 

 and belly red ; quills and tail black, striated across with white. 



Inhabits the colder parts of Mexico. 



* Fernandez does not mention that his bird was red on any part of the body. 



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