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GOLD-WINGED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus auratus.) 



P. griseo nigroque transversim striatus, lateribus gulce pectoreque 



medio nigris, nucha rubra, uropygio albo. 

 Woodpecker transversely striated with black and grey ; the sides 



of the throat and the middle of the breast black ; hind part of 



the head red; rump white. 

 Picus auratus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 174. 9. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



430.— Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 242. 52. Phil. Trans. 62. 387. 

 Picus Canadensis striatus. Briss. 4. 72. 28. Vieil. Ois. de 



VAmer. Sept. 2. 66. 

 Le Pic aux ailes dorees. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 39. 

 Pic raye du Canada. Buff. PL Enl. 6g3. 

 Le Pic dore. Vieil. Ois. de UAmer. Sept. c 2. 66. 123. 

 Gold-winged Woodpecker. Pen. Arct. Zool. 158. — Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 2. 597. 49. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 111. 



This remarkable and beautiful bird is less than 

 the common green Woodpecker : the beak is very 

 different from that of the rest of the genus, being 

 rounded, and ridged only on the top ; it is one 

 inch and a half in length, black, somewhat bent, 

 and sharp at the point : upper parts of the head 

 and neck ash-coloured : hind part of the head red : 

 sides of the latter, throat, and fore-part of the 

 neck, pale yellow : on each side of the head, from 

 the base of the lower jaw to the neck, is a stripe 

 of black : back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, grey 

 brown, transversely striated with black lines: 

 breast, belly, and sides, whitish yellow, each fea- 

 ther with a round black spot at the tip : on the 

 middle of the breast is a large crescent of black: 



