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reiterated with such velocity, that the head scarcely 

 seems to move, and the sound may be heard 

 distinctly for half a mile. It is called in different 

 parts of England by the various names of Wood- 

 spite, Rainfowl*, Highhoe, Hewhole, Awl-bird, 

 Peck-a-tree, Yappingale, Yaffler, Woodwall, and 

 Poppinjay ; and has a very harsh note. 



BENGAL WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus bengalensis.) 



P. uiridis, crista rubra, nucha nigra, J route et jugulo albo ni- 

 groque vario, corpore subtus albo. 



Green Woodpecker, with a red crest ; top of the neck black ; 

 forehead and jugulum varied with black and white ; body be- 

 neath white. 



Picus bengalensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. i?5. ]3. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 433. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 235. 2(J.~-Briss. 4. 14. 2. 

 Le Pic verd de Bengale. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 23.— Buff. PL 



Enl. 695. 



Bengal Woodpecker. Albin. 3. 22. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 580. 

 26. 



Spotted Indian Woodpecker. Edtv, 182. 



A most beautiful species, and native of Bengal 

 and Ceylon : is in length about eight inches and 

 a half: the beak one inch and a half, and black- 

 ish : crown black, spotted with white : back of the 

 head with a long crimson crest : sides of the head 

 beneath the eye white, from whence a white line 



* It has the name of Rain-fowl, from the notion that it makes 

 most noise before rain. 



