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BROWN WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus moluccensis.) 



P Jusco-nigricans albo undatus, subtus albidus Jusco sagittatus, 



crisso albo, remigibus rectricibusque albo maculatis. 

 Blackish-brown Woodpecker, waved with white; beneath whitish, 



sprinkled with brown ; vent white ; quills and tail-feathers 



spotted with white. 

 Picus moluccensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 439. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 233. 25. 



Petit Epeiche brun des Moluques. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 68. 

 Petit Pic des Moluques. Buff. PI. Enl. 748. 2. 

 Brown Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 577. 24 • — Lath. Sup. 

 109. 



Length five inches : beak pale : sides of the 

 head white; crown and a spot beneath the eye 

 brown : upper parts of the body brownish black, 

 undulated with white : beneath whitish, sprinkled 

 with brown : quills spotted with white : vent white : 

 tail-feathers brown, with three white spots on both 

 webs : legs blueish. Inhabits the Molucca Islands 

 and India. 



