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MANILLA GREEN WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus manillensis.) 



P. sordide+viridis, vertice grisea maculato, tectricibus caudce su- 

 perioribus rubris, remigibus rectricibusque nigricantibus . 



Dull-green Woodpecker, with the crown grey spotted, upper 

 tail-coverts red, quills and tail-feathers blackish. 



Picus manillensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 434?. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 tfi 236. 31. 



Le Pic verd de Pisle de Lucon. Son. Voy. 73. 36. 

 Manilla Green Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 583. 28. 



About eleven inches in length : beak blackish : 

 top of the head spotted with grey : prevailing co- 

 lour of the body dirty green : quills and tail black: 

 the upper coverts of the latter bright red : legs 

 blackish : said by Sonnerat to inhabit Luzonia. 



