WOODPECKER. 411 



dusky white ; all the under parts from the chin, dusky white, with 

 numerous, longitudinal streaks of brown ; legs dusky ; shape of the 

 tail rounded at the end, but the two middle feathers in proportion 

 longer than the others, shafts of all of them yellow at the base. 

 Inhabits Abyssinia. — In the collection of Mr. Salt. 



86— GOLD-SHAFTED WOODPECKER. 



Le petit Pic a baguettes d'or, Levail. Afr. vi. 25. pi. 253. m. & fem. 



BIGGER than our Little Woodpecker. Bill and legs brown ; 

 irides yellowish ; forehead first brown, then black, behind elongated, 

 and crimson ; over the eye a white streak ; body above dusky black, 

 with undulated yellowish white lines ; chin white ; cheeks dusky 

 white ; quills spotted with yellow, and yellow shafts ; tail the same ; 

 body beneath yellowish white, dashed and mixed with dusky. 



The female has the colours less brilliant, and the crown wholly 

 black, but at a certain age has a small patch of red on the crown. 



The young male like the female : in the first feather the red may 

 be seen on the hindhead. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, on the East Coast at Groote 

 vaders Bosch, and various other parts of Africa; lays five or six 

 pure white eggs, and both sexes sit on them in turn. 



87— CRIMSON-BREASTED WOODPECKER. 



Picus olivaceus, Ind. On. i. 243. Gm. Lin.i. 431. Gen. ZooL ix. 216. 

 Le Pic Laboureur, Levail. Afr. vi. p. 27. pi. 254. 

 Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 599. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill two inches, in shape like 

 that of the Gold-winged, colour black ; upper parts of the head, 



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