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STRIPED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus fasciatus.) 



P. fusco-nigricans, vertice loris strigaque submaxillari coccineis y 

 abdomine albo nigroque striato, rectricibus ajpice albis. 



Brownish-black Woodpecker, with the crown, lore, and a stripe 

 beneath the jaw scarlet ; abdomen striated with black and 

 white; tail-feathers white at the tip. 



Picus striatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 430. 



Picus fasciatus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 228. 12. 



Striped-bellied Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 563. 11. 



This species, which is in the British Museum, 

 is rather larger than P. minor, being eight inches 

 in length : beak one inch, and yellowish : crown 

 and nape crimson, as is a stripe beneath the jaw, 

 and another from the beak to the eye ; which last 

 is bordered with white : back, wings, and tail 

 black, the tips of the latter white : belly and sides 

 of the head striated with black and white ; legs 

 black. 



