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PASSERINE WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus passerinus.) 



P. olivaceo-Jiavicans, subtus fusco candicanteque Jasciatus, capite 

 supra rubro. 



Yellowish-olive Woodpecker, beneath barred with brown and 



whitish ; upper part of the head red. 

 Picus passerinus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 174. 6. — Gmel, Syst, Nat, 



1. 427. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 238. 40. — Vieil. Ois, de VAmer, 



Sept. 2. 61. 



Picus dominicensis minor. Briss. 4. 75. 29. t. 4.f. 2. 



Petit Pic olive de St. Domingue. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois, 7. 29.— 



Vieil. Ois. de VAmer, Sept. 2. 6l. 115. 

 Passerine Woodpecker. Lath, Gen, Syn. 2. 588. 37.— Lath, Syn, 



Sup. 110. 



This bird is an inhabitant of the island of St. 

 Domingo, and likewise of Cayenne, and is in 

 length six inches : beak nearly an inch, and grey : 

 upper part of the head in the male red ; in the 

 female brown ; sides rufous grey : upper parts of 

 the body yellowish olive; beneath transversely 

 striated with whitish and brown : upper wing- 

 coverts in general tipped with a yellowish white 

 spot ; the inner edges of the greater quills brown, 

 dentated with whitish ; the outer edges and the 

 two first feathers plain : tail brown ; the two middle 

 feathers with two grey spots on each margin, out- 

 wardly edged with olive; the two outer ones brown 

 mixed with grey, the exterior one tipped with 

 whitish : legs and claws grey. 



