BLACK-BREASTED WOODPECKER. %Q5 



shafts, spotted on the outside with yellow, and 

 within with white: tail black; the six middle fea- 

 thers barred with dull olive on the outer web, 

 but the two middle ones barred the same on the 

 inner web \ the two exterior ones with yellow 

 shafts, and barred with black and rufous : legs 

 grey : claws grey brown : found at Cayenne. 



BLACK-BREASTED WOODPECKER. 



(Picus multicolor.) 



P. cristatus riifus, capite gula cerviceque supremo Julvis, infimo 



jugulo pectore alarumque maculis nigris. 

 Crested Woodpecker, with the head, throat, and upper part of 



the back of the neck fulvous ; the lower part, jugulum, breast, 



and spots on the wings black. 

 Picus multicolor. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 429 . — Lath.Ind. Orn. i. 



240. 46. 



Pic a cravate noire. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 35.—Buff. PI. Enl. 

 863. 



Black-breasted Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 593. 43. 



Beak pale : head, throat, and hind part of the 

 neck orange-yellow : with a black collar round the 

 neck, extending in front over the breast : head 

 crested : back and wings bright rufous, the latter 

 with a few black spots : quills marked with black : 

 belly and vent ferruginous buff : tail black at the 

 tip, rufous with black spots at the base : legs lead- 

 coloured. 



This species is very destructive to trees 5 it is 

 found at Cayenne and Guiana : by the natives of 

 the latter place it is called Toucoumaru 



