SPOTTED INDIAN WOODPECKER. 
bill to the middle of the breast, is irregularly 
variegated with large black and white spots. 
The hinder part of the neck is black ; and, on 
each side, there runs a v/hite line down to the 
wings. The beginning of the back is yellow ; 
but the lower part, and the rump, are of a dull 
green hue. The belly, thighs, and covert* 
beneath the tail, are white, sprinkled with se- 
ttiilunar spqfs. Some of the exterior prima- 
ries are black, barred with white ; the re- 
fiiainder, and the coverts of the wings, are of 
a dull green colour ; and the lesser coverts are 
a dark brown, with distin6i: white spots. The 
tail is blackish, with a cast of dull green ; 
the feathers of which it is composed being stiff 
and pointed. The legs and claws are dusky. 
Buffon says, that the Green Woodpecker 
of Goa, which he considers as one of the 
most beautiful of the "Woodpeckers, bears a 
striking resemblance to this bird : and, from 
this similarity, joined to the circumstance that 
they inliabit contiguously, he is induced to 
conclude that they are the same ; or, at least, 
two kindred species. The Goa Woodpecker, 
however, 
