WOODPECKER. 413 



of the lower jaw a streak of crimson ; from the nostrils, through 

 the eye, and the sides of the head dirty buff ; back and wings fine 

 olive green, with numerous buff-coloured dots ; quills plain brown 

 within, with golden yellow shafts, marked with white on the inner 

 webs, and with buff-coloured dots on the margin of the outer ; chin, 

 throat, breast, sides, and thighs yellowish buff, marked with 

 minute black dots ; middle of the belly plain buff yellow ; tail stiff, 

 dusky at the end, with yellow shafts, and marked on each web with 

 eight or nine bars of yellow ; legs brown. 



In the Museum of Mr. Bullock ; said to have been brought from 

 Batavia. 



* * WITH THREE TOES. 



89— NORTHERN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. 



Picus tridactylus, Ind. Orn. i. 243. Lin. i. 177. Faun. Suec. No. 103. Gm. Lin. i. 



439. Act. Stock. 1740. p. 222. Ph. Trans, lxii. 388. Scop. Ann. i. No. 56. Georgi 



reise 165. Bor. Nat. ii. 138. Spalowsk. Vog. iii. t. 16. Decouv. Russ. i. 100. 



Tern. Man. d'Orn. 246. Id. Ed. ii. p. 402. 

 Picus hirsutus, Vieill. Am. Sept. ii. pi. 124. 

 Picus tridactylus anomalus, Mus. Petr. 368. Gerin. t. 180. 

 Tridactylia hirsuta, downy Tridactylia, Gen. Zool.ix. 219. pi. 38. 

 Three-toed Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 600. Id. Sup. 112. Edw. pi. 114. Arctic 



Zool. ii. No. 158. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill dusky; the under man- 

 dible white ; tips of both dusky, and broader at the base than in 

 any of the tribe ; crown of the head golden yellow ; sides of the 

 head, before and beneath the eye, dotted black and white ; from the 

 eye, on each side, a streak of white ; down the middle of the back 

 white ; upper parts of the body and wings black ; on the coverts a 



