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NUBIAN WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus nubicus.) 



P. fusco albo rufoque undato-maculatus, vertice nigro albo punc- 

 tato, occipite cristato rubro, collo pectoreque albidis nigro 

 guttatis. 



Spotted Woodpecker waved with brown, white, and rufous; 



crown black, spotted with white ; hind head with a red crest ; 



neck and breast whitish, with black tear-shaped spots. 

 Picus nubicus. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 439. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



233. 24. 



Epeiche de Nubie onde et tachete. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. f. 



66.— Buff. PI. Enl. 667. 

 Nubian Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 5?6. 23. 



The Nubian Woodpecker is in length seven 

 inches and a half: beak black : irides pale brown : 

 crown black, spotted with white : back of the 

 head crimson, slightly crested : forehead brown- 

 ish : from that to the eye, with the chin, whitish : 

 the rest of the neck and breast the same, marked 

 with tear-shaped black spots : the upper parts of 

 the body beautifully variegated with brown, ru- 

 fous, and white : thighs and vent whitish : tail 

 barred with rufous and brown: legs blue. In- 

 habits the deserts of Nubia. 



