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GOA WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus goensis.) 



P. viridis subcristatus, pileo coccineo, corpore subtus albido nigro 



undato, temporibus vitta alba, lateribus colli striga nigra. 

 Green Woodpecker, slightly crested; top of the head crimson; 



body beneath white, waved with black ; temples with a white 



stripe, sides of the neck with a black one. 

 Picus goensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 484. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



235. 28. 



Pic vert de Goa. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 22.— Buff. PI. Enl 

 696. 



Goa Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 582. 27. 



This bird, which is described by Buffbn, is 

 rather less than P. viridis, to which it has a great 

 affinity: beak black: back of the head crested, and 

 with the crown crimson: there is a white stripe 

 bordering the crimson on the sides of the head, 

 which gets wider as it passes onwards to the neck: 

 from the eye there is also a band of the same 

 colour, which passing downwards in a zigzag 

 manner, reaches over the wings, the lesser coverts 

 of which are black ; and the other part of the 

 wings is a bright yellow, ending on the secondaries 

 in a greenish yellow : primaries varied with black 

 and white: body beneath whitish, the feathers 

 edged with black: tail black: legs lead-colour. 

 Inhabits Goa, and is very like P. bengalensis. 



