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RED-BREASTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus ruber.) 



P. niger, capite, collo, et pectore coccineis, macula alarum longi~ 



tudinali alba } abdomine medio Jlavescente-albo. 

 Black Woodpecker, with the head, neck, and breast scarlet, a 



longitudinal white spot on the wings, and the middle of the 



abdomen yellowish white. 

 Picus ruber. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 429. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 228. 



10. 



Red-breasted Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 562. 9. — Lath. 

 Sup. 106. 



Length eight inches and a half : beak an inch 

 long, and brown : back of the neck varied with 

 dusky : head, neck, and breast crimson ; with a 

 buff-coloured line beginning at the nostril and 

 ending beneath the eye : wings and back black : 

 most of the lesser wing-coverts tipped with white, 

 and the greater ones with the outer webs white, 

 forming a parallel streak near the edges of the 

 wing : scapulars with an obscure yellowish spot at 

 the tip : quills black ; the first with round white 

 spots on the inner web half way from the base j 

 the rest spotted on both webs with that colour : 

 under wing-coverts varied with black and white : 

 middle of the belly dirty yellowish white : sides 

 the same, mixed with blackish : tail entirely black, 

 except the middle feather, which has three white 

 spots on one of the webs: legs black. Said to 

 inhabit Cayenne. 



