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YELLOW-HEADED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus icterocephalus.) 



P. subcristatus olmaceo-fuscuSj subtus albo maculatus, capite col- 

 logue Jlavis, pileo rubro. 



Olive-brown Woodpecker, with a slight crest, beneath spotted 

 with white ; head and neck yellow ; crown red. 



Picus chlorocephalus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 432. 



Picus icterocephalus. Lath. Lid. Orn. 1. 241. 4g. 



Petit Pic a gorge jaune. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 37.—Buf, PI. 

 Enl. 784. 



Yellow-headed Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 595. 46. 



Length about seven inches : beak lead-colour : 

 head and neck yellow : top of the head crimson, 

 the feathers lengthened into a crest : on the side 

 of the head is a stripe of the same colour: prevail- 

 ing colour olive brown : the under parts spotted 

 with white, but more thickly so near the crest : 

 legs lead-colour. This bird is occasionally found 

 with the chin and throat spotted with pale red : 

 the under parts from thence to the vent dusky 

 white, striated with transverse irregular brownish 

 streaks. This fine species is an inhabitant of 

 Guiana and Cayenne. 



