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Woodpecker above transversely banded with black and white; 

 beneath white ; with the sides spotted with black ; the head, 

 nape, and neck behind black j a crimson spot on the nape j and 

 a black stripe from the gape to the eyes. 



Skilt Woodpecker. Lath, Gen, Hist. v. iii. p, 381. 



Inhabits Georgia. Length eight inches and a 

 half : beak black : irides red : bristles over the beak 

 white ; head above the eyes, the nape, and neck be- 

 hind fine glossy black : cheeks, including the eye, 

 white, growing much broader behind the eye, and a 

 little way on the neck : on each side of the nape, 

 close above the white, a small crimson streak : back 

 and scapulars alternately banded with black and white : 

 lesser wing-coverts black : each of the others marked 

 with a white heart-shaped spot, and the lower series 

 with olive ones : greater quills black ; the exterior 

 wholly so, excepting a spot or two of white near the 

 base : the second with five white spots on the outer 

 web, and three or four large round spots on the 

 inner from the base to the middle ; the others much 

 the same, with the ends plain black : the secondary 

 quills crossed with three or four spots on each side 

 the web, in a transverse direction : from the gape a 

 broad streak of black divides the cheeks from the 

 chin, which, with all the under parts, is white ; but 

 the sides under the wings and the vent are spotted 

 with black : four middle tail-feathers black, the rest 

 white ; the outermost barred four times on the inner 

 web, and two smaller bars on the outer, correspond- 

 ing with the two inner ones nearest the end ; the 

 second feathers much the same, but black within at 

 the base ; the third has the inner web black, and 



