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part of the head are short and pointed ; the tips bright 

 red : the base black : on the hind head they are 

 larger, and change to a bright golden -yellow, which 

 spreads round the nape : the ear-feathers and front of 

 the head are greyish-brown, striped down the middle 

 with whitish, and in some there is an appearance of 

 a whitish line over the eye joining the nape : the 

 upper parts of the body and wings are of a rich 

 golden-brown, with indistinct brighter spots ; the 

 lesser wing-coverts have a whitish spot at the tip of 

 each, forming two bands : quills on the inner shafts 

 black, with white spots : under plumage grey, tinged 

 on the breast with rufous, and banded with brownish- 

 black : tail short, black, with interrupted transverse 

 bands of obscure olive. The female has the head 

 blackish, the feathers tipped with dull white : the 

 ears darker : the plumage above more olive, the spots 

 brighter, and the bands on the body grey, paler, and 

 more indistinct than in the male : legs in both sexes 

 greenish. 



Sp. 32. Pi. Brasiliensis. Stvain. Zool. lUust. v. l.pL 20. 

 Fuolivaceus suUus fulvus, nigrescente fasciatus; capite subcristato ; 



supra ruhro, utrhique lineis olivaceis ; Jiilvis et rubris. 

 Olive Woodpecker beneath fulvous striped with dusky ; the head 



slightly crested ; red above, with olive j fulvous and red lines 



on each side. 



Brazilian Woodpecker. Lath, Gen. Hist, v. ni. p. 385. 



Inhabits Brazil. " Length nine inches : beak 

 not quite an inch, and blackish : irides yellow ; head 

 slightly crested : the whole upper part crimson : or- 

 bits and cheeks olive-brown : beneath this a line of 

 tawny-yellow begins at the nostrils and passes down 



