398 WOODPECKER. 



web only ; under wing coverts black and white mixed ; middle of 

 the belly dusky yellowish white ; the sides of the same, mixed with 

 dusky ; the tail wholly black, except one of the middle feathers, 

 which has three white spots on one side of the shaft, but the other 

 web is plain black. 



This was said to come from Cayenne ; and one greatly similar, if 

 not the same, is found in the woods of Paraguay ; another, not 

 unlike, was met with in Nootka Sound, on the Coast of North 

 America. This is said to be "less than a Thrush, black above, 

 "with white spots on the wing ; a crimson head, neck, and breast ; 

 " and a yellowish olive-coloured belly ; from which circumstance it 

 " might perhaps be called the Yellow-bellied Woodpecker." 



70.— RED-THROATED WOODPECKER. 



Picus rubidicollis, Red-throated Woodpecker, Gen. Zool. ix. 136. Vie!/. Am. Sept. ii. C3. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill lead-colour ; head, 

 neck, and upper parts of the body black, varying in different lights 

 to blue and green ; forehead, rump, and upper tail coverts white ; 

 all beneath the body crimson, bounded on the sides with pale yellow, 

 on which are a few black spots ; legs lead-colour. 



The female is like the other sex, except that the under parts are 

 grey and brown. 



Inhabits St. Domingo. 



71— RAYED WOODPECKER. 



Picus striatus, hid. Orn. i. 238. Gm. Lin. i. 427. Bris. iv. 65. t. 4. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 



59. Vieill.Am. ii. p. 61. pi. 114. 

 Pic raye de St. Domingue, Buf. vii. 27. PI. enl. 2S1. 

 Rayed Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 587. Gen. Zool. ix. 199. 



THIS is a little bigger than the Greater-spotted Woodpecker ; 

 length eight inches and three-quarters. Bill horn-colour ; forehead, 



