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CRIMSON-BREASTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Picus olivaceus.) 



P. olivaceo-Juscus, urojjygio saturate, pectore pallide coccineis, cor- 



pore toto maculis pallidis, crisso fascia fusca. 

 Brown olive Woodpecker, with the rump darker; breast pale 



crimson; the whole body with pale spots; vent with a brown 



band. 



Picus olivaceus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 431. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 I. 242. 54. 



Crimson-breasted Woodpecker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 599. 50. 



This species is likewise a native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and has a similar beak to P. auratus; 

 it is black, and two inches in length : the upper 

 parts of the head, neck, and body, are dusky olive 

 brown, faintly dotted with paler brown : throat 

 and fore-part of the neck dusky brown, marked 

 with a few slight paler spots; lower part of the 

 neck and breast pale crimson : rump the same, 

 but paler, and marked with still paler spots : quills 

 dark brown, marked on each web with oblique 

 cream-coloured bars : vent 4 us ky brown, marked 

 with faint bars of a paler colour: shafts of the 

 quills and tail yellowish ; the latter two inches in 

 length, black above, and olive yellow beneath ; 

 forked like the two last : legs black. 



