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YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus flaviventris.) 



P. supra niger ; capite, collo, pectoreque rubris ; alis maculis 



albis, ventre jlavescente-olivaceo. 

 Woodpecker above black ; with the head, neck, and breast red ; 



wings with white spots, and belly yellowish olive. 

 Picus flaviventris. Vieil. Ois. de UAmer. Sept. 2. 67. 

 Pic a ventre jaune. Vieil, Ois, de UAmer. Sept. 2. 67. 



The person who first noticed this bird was the 

 celebrated Captain Cook, who procured it in Noot- 

 ka Sound, on the north-west coast of America : the 

 upper parts are black, the wings spotted with 

 white : the head, neck, and breast are red : abdo- 

 men yellowish olive, in which circumstance it 

 principally differs from P. ruber ; and from P. 

 rubricollis in being much smaller, and not above 

 half of the length. 



v. ix. p. i. 



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