196 



LESSER BLACK WOODPECKER. 



with dirty white : breast, belly, sides, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts dirty white, the feathers mar- 

 gined with brown, except those of the tail-coverts, 

 which are blackish ; there is also a transverse stripe 

 of black on the latter : tail black : legs and claws 

 pale lead-colour. 



LESSER BLACK WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus hirundinaceus.) 



P. niger, occipite crlstato rubro, humeris albido punctatis, abdomine 

 inferiore albo. 



Black Woodpecker, with the hinder part of the head crested 

 and red ; shoulders spotted with whitish ; lower part of the 

 abdomen white. '' 



Picus hirundinaceus. Lath. Syst. Nat. 1. 174. 5.—GmeL Syst. 

 Nat, 1. 42Q.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 227- 8. 



Picus flavipes. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 438. 



Le petit Pic noir de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 54.— 



Buff. PL Enl. 694. 2. 

 Yellow-legged Woodpecker. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 167. 

 Lesser Black Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 55Q. 7« 



This variable species is in length about seven 

 inches : beak an inch and a quarter, and brown : 

 irides whitish : general colour black : hind head 

 red : edges of the wings and lower part of the 

 belly white: legs yellowish: claws black: one 

 mentioned by BufFon differs in some respects from 

 the above, having a white line above the eye, and 

 towards the back of the head a few yellowish 

 spots : down the middle of the head a dash of red : 



