408 WOODPECKER. 



learn, from Azara, that is is found in Paraguay and Buenos Ayres. 

 M. Temminck agrees with Gmelin in joining it with the Wryneck.* 



83— GOLD-WINGED WOODPECKER. 



Picus auratus, Ind. Orn. i. 242. Lin. i. 174. Gm. Lin. i. 430. Ph. Trans. 62. 387. 



Borowsk. ii. 134. t. 17. Spalowsck. Vog. ii. t. 25. Vieill. Amer. ii. p. 66. pi. 123. 



Gen. Zool. ix. 213. pi. 36. + 

 Picus Canadensis striatus, Bris. iv. 72. Id. 8vo. ii. 61. 

 — — major alis aureis, Kahn It. iii. 42. 

 Cuculus alis deauratis, Klein Av. 30. 

 Pic a ailes dorees, Buf. vii. 39. 

 Pic raye de Canada, PL enl. 693. 



Le Charpentier des Champs, Voy. d' Azara iv. No. 25. 

 Gold-winged Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 597. Id. Sup. 111. Cates. Car.i. t.18. Kahn 



Trav. ii. 86. Arct. Zool. No. 158. Cook's last Voy. ii. 297. Bertram 287. Am. 



Orn. i. pi. 3. f. 1. 



LENGTH twelve inches ; breadth nineteen and a half; weight 

 about five ounces. Bill one inch and a half long, black, somewhat 

 bent, and contrary to others, rounding, not square, being only 

 ridged at the top, with a sharp point ; top of the head, nape, and 

 neck behind, pale ash-colour ; below the nape a longish patch of 

 crimson ; sides of the head, chin, sides, and fore part of the neck, 

 pale dull yellowish red, or rufous; through the eye, at the base of 

 the lower jaw, a long black mark ; back, scapulars, and wing 

 coverts grey brown, striated across with black lines ; rump whitish ; 

 breast, belly, and sides whitish yellow, each feather marked with 

 a roundish spot of black at the tip ; on the middle of the breast a 

 large black crescent; thighs, upper and under tail coverts, black 

 and white mixed ; quills brown, with yellow shafts, spotted with 

 brown on the outer edge ; tail blackish, outwardly edged with grey, 



* See Analys. p. Ixxx. 



