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ORANGE WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus aurantius.) 



P. supra aurantius, nucha uropygio rectricibusque nigris. 

 Woodpecker above orange, with the hinder part of the neck, 



rump, and tail-feathers black. 

 P. aurantius. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 174. 8. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



430. — Lath. Lnd. Orn. 1. 237- 35. 

 Picus capitis Bonae Spei. Bris. 4. 78. 3. t. 6.f. 1. 

 Pic du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 24* 

 Orange Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 585. 32. 



This beautiful bird, which is a native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, is in length ten inches and a 

 half: beak one inch and a half, and lead-coloured : 

 crown and back of the head red ; the feathers long 

 and narrow : from the eye to the hind head on 

 each side is a stripe of white, and another from 

 the nostrils passing beneath the eye and down the 

 sides of the neck; the hind part and sides of 

 which are blackish : the cheeks, throat, and fore- 

 part of the neck dirty grey, with the margins of 

 each feather blackish : scapulars of a gilded green, 

 with an orange tinge : upper part of the back of 

 a fine golden orange ; lower part with the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts blackish : wing-coverts 

 blackish brown ; some of them with a dirty grey 

 spot on the tips ; and the greater ones nearest the 

 body gilded olive, some of them spotted in a si- 

 milar way, but those farthest from the body plain 

 brown : quills dark brown \ most of them spotted 



