410 WOODPECKER. 



84. —YELLOW-SHAFTED WOODPECKER, 



Picus cafer, Ind. Orn. i. 242. Gm. Lin. i. 431. Gen. Zool. ix. 215. 

 Gold-winged Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 599. 49. A. 



RATHER less than the last. The bill exactly shaped as in that 

 bird, and brown ; on each jaw a stripe of crimson, like a whisker; 

 plumage above brown, beneath vinaceous, marked with round black 

 spots ; the under part of the wings pale red, the colour of red lead ; 

 tail black, pointed, each feather bifurcated at the tip, as in the 

 Gold-winged Species. 



I have seen two of these, which came from the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; as also another smaller, not more than six inches long. Bill 

 black ; upper parts of the body, brownish ash-colour, with obsolete 

 dusky spots; crown plain brown ash ; nape crimson; chin, throaty 

 and sides of the neck dusky white, with a mixture of dusky spots on 

 the jaw ; shafts of the quills yellow ; tail dusky yellow, with black 

 spots, and yellow shafts ; legs black. The rump was not whitish, 

 nor of a paler colour than that of the back. — This last was among 

 some drawings done in India. 



85— ABYSSINIAN WOODPECKER. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill dusky lead-colour ; forehead dusky 

 buff, the rest of the crown and nape crimson ; upper parts of the 

 body olive-brown ; wing coverts darker, with whitish spots ; quills 

 the same, each marked with three or four roundish spots of white on 

 the inner margin, and dotted with white on the outer, the third quill 

 the longest ; upper tail coverts crimson ; tail spotted as the quills, 

 the shafts brown above and yellow beneath ; the under wing coverts 

 whitish, with a mixture of brown ; on each side of the margin pale 



