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RED-RUMPED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus capensis.) 



P. griseus, collo pectore dorsoque jusco-olivaceis, cauda nigra, 



tectricibus uropygioque ruhris. 

 Grey Woodpecker, with the neck, breast, and back brown-olive ; 



tail black ; the coverts of the tail and the rump red. 

 Picus capensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 430. — Lath. Ind. Orn. \. 



237. 37. 



Pic a tete grise du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 7. 26.— Buff. PI. Enl. 786./. 2. 

 Cape Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 58(5. 34. 



Beak lead-colour : back, neck, and breast olive- 

 brown ; the rest of the plumage deep grey, lightest 

 on the head : quills dusky : rump and upper tail- 

 coverts red : tail black : legs lead-coloured. The 

 supposed opposite sex has the beak black : head, 

 neck, and under parts pale grey: back and wings 

 olive brown : crown, rump, and belly crimson : 

 tail dusky : legs black. Is found at the Cape of 

 Good Hope and Abyssinia, in which latter place 

 it is called Wye-wa. 



