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RAYED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus striatus.) 



P. niger olivaceo striatus, subtus olivaceus, vertice occipite uropy- 



gioque rubris, collo subtus pectoreque griseo-fuscis. 

 Black Woodpecker striated with olive, beneath olivaceous; 



crown, hind head, and rump red ; lower part of the neck and 



breast brownish grey. 

 Picus striatus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 427. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 1. 



238. 3Q. — Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 2. 6l. 

 Picus dominicensis striatus. Briss. 4. 65. 25. t. A.f. 1. 

 Pic raye de St. Domingue. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 27. — Buff. 



PI. Enl. 281. 614.— -Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 2. 6l. 114. 

 Rayed Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 587. 30. 



In length eight inches and three quarters : beak 

 horn-coloured : crown and back of the head red : 

 forehead, cheeks, and throat grey : upper parts of 

 the body black, striated transversely with olive : 

 fore-part of the neck, breast, and under wing- 

 coverts grey brown : belly, sides, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts olive : quills blackish, spotted on the 

 outer webs with yellow, and on the inner with 

 whitish : tail black ; the two outer feathers edged 

 with grey ; beneath olive : legs and claws blackish ; 

 female rather less; the top of the head black: in 

 other respects the plumage is similar to the male. 

 Inhabits St. Domingo. 



