PLATE CXXXVIL 



PICUS MEDIUS, 

 MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER, 

 Pic^. 



GENERIC CHARACTEJL 



Bill angular, ftraight, cuneated at the tip : noflrils covered with 

 recumbent fetaceous feathers : tongue round, worm-fhaped, very- 

 long, and ofleous, miffile, daggered, and befet at the point with 

 bridles bent back : tail feathers ten in number^ hard, rigid, and 

 pointed : feet cliinbers. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Variegated with black and white: crovv*n crimfon : fpace round 

 the eyes and fides of the neck ^hite. 



Picus MEDIUS: albo nigroque varius, crifTo pileoque rubris. 

 Linn, Syji. !./». 176. 18.-«f>?, Suec, No, 101.— 

 Gmel. SyJi. 1. p, ^ZQ,^Lath, Ind,, Dm, Zil^. 

 n. 14. 



Picus varius minor. Ray. Syn. p, 43, 5. 



Picus varius. BrtJJ, 4. />. S8. 14. /. 2./ 1, 



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