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CAYENNE WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus cayanensis.) 



P. olivaceus nigro striatus, subtus Jlavicans, occipite rubro, vertice 



gulaque nigro, genis albidis. 

 Olive Woodpecker striated with black, beneath yellowish ; hind 



head red ; crown and throat black ; cheeks whitish. 

 Picus cayanensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 428. — Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 



239. 43. 



Picus striatus cayanensis. Briss. 4. 69. 2?. 

 Petit Pic raye de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 31.— Buff. 

 PI. Enl. 613. 



Cayenne Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 590. 40.— Lath. Syn. 

 Sup. 111. 



Very similar to Picus melanochloros, but not 

 above half the size, being only seven inches and a 

 half in length : the beak ten lines and a half, and 

 blackish : crown of the head black ; hind head 

 red ; sides whitish, with a crimson streak on each 

 side of the under jaw in the male : throat black, 

 minutely spotted with white : fore-part of the 

 neck and breast dull yellowish olive, with a small 

 black spot near the end of each feather, and some 

 of them with red tips : belly and sides yellowish ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts the same, but spotted 

 with black : hind part of the neck and back yel- 

 lowish olive, but each feather of the lower part of 

 the latter, with those of the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, is spotted with black near the tip : sca- 

 pulars and wing-coverts dull olive, transversely 

 barred with blackish : quills the same, with yellow 



