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RED-CHEEKED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus undatus.) 



P. testaceus nigro undulatus, temporibus sanguineis. 

 Testaceous Woodpecker undulated with black ; sides of the head 

 bright red. 



Picus undatus. Lin, Syst. Nat. 1. 1 75. 10.— Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 432.—- Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 241. 47. 

 Red-cheeked Woodpecker. Edw. 332. — >Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 594. 



44. 



According to Edwards, this bird is in length 

 about nine inches : beak brownish : from the an- 

 gles of the mouth, passing beneath the eyes, is a 

 broad plat of red feathers : the whole bird is of a 

 dun colour, or orange inclining to olive, marked 

 with dusky bars : legs dusky. Found at the same 

 places as the last. 



