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BENGAL WOODPECKER. 



passes down the neck ; the hind part of which is 

 black, and the fore-part, and throat, black and 

 white mixed : breast, upper part of the belly, and 

 sides, white; the feathers margined with brown: 

 lower part of the belly, thighs, and vent, white : 

 upper part of the back yellow; lower dull green: 

 under and upper lesser wing-coverts deep brown, 

 spotted with white; the rest of the wing green, 

 spotted with lighter green: quills black, striated 

 with white: tail greenish black: legs and claws 

 blackish. 



This bird is subject to a slight variation, being 

 sometimes found with the white spots on the head 

 more numerous; and having that part of the back 

 black, which in the former is yellowish, and the 

 middle, with the upper and under lesser wing- 

 coverts of a fine red: throat, breast, and greater 

 quills brown, the latter spotted with white : tail 

 brown : most probably the opposite sex. 



