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GOLD-BACKED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus senegalensis.) 



F.Jronte genisque fuscis, pileo rubro, dor so remigibusque Julvo- 



aureis, corpore subtus griseo Jusco alboque undulato. 

 Woodpecker with the forehead and cheeks brown ; crown red ; 



back and quills fulvous gold ; body beneath grey, waved with 



brown and white. 

 P. senegalensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 430. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



237. 36. 



Le petit Pic du Senegal. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. J. 25.—Buff. 



PI. Enl. 345. f. 2. 

 Gold-backed Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 586. 33. 



The Gold-backed Woodpecker is very little 

 longer than a Sparrow : beak dusky : crown red : 

 forehead and sides brown : quills and back of a 

 golden fulvous yellow : the under parts of the 

 body transversely waved with grey brown and dull 

 white : coverts and rump greenish : the tail-fea- 

 thers black, all except the two middle ones spotted 

 with yellow : legs dusky. Is an inhabitant of 

 Senegal. 



