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LINEATED WOODPECKER. 
PlCUS LINEATUS, Linn. 
(Not figured.) 
A specimen of a Woodpecker sent from the Columbia river by Dr 
Meredith Gairdner to Professor Jameson of Edinburgh, who kindly 
lent it to me for the purpose of being described, I found to be the Picus 
lineatus of Linnaeus, a species which appears to be very extensively dis- 
tributed, being, according to various authors, plentiful in Cayenne, Guiana, 
Brazil, and even Paraguay. The specimen, which was shot near Port 
Vancouver, is an adult male, but has been injured in the wings. Along with 
it were specimens of Picus Harrisii and Picus ruber , shot in the same 
neighbourhood. 
Picus lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. P74. 
Lineated Woodpecker, Picus lineatus , Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 315. 
Male, 15, wing JyV 
Columbia river. 
Adult Male. 
Bill nearly as long as the head, straight, strong, angulate, depressed at the 
base, compressed toward the end, which is truncate, and laterally worn so as 
to be wedge-shaped. Upper mandible with the dorsal line slightly convex, 
the ridge very narrow and prominent, the sides concave at the base, the 
lateral angles nearer the ridge than the edges, which are sharp and direct ; 
the point with two slight ridges on each side ; lower mandible with the 
angle long and narrow, the dorsal line ascending and straight, the ridge 
narrow, the sides erect at the base, afterwards sloping outwards and convex, 
the tip narrow ; gap-line straight. Nostrils elliptical, covered by a tuft of 
reversed bristly feathers. 
Head rather large, ovato-oblong ; neck rather long and slender. Feet 
short, stout ; tarsus very short, scutellate before, scaly on the sides ; two toes 
before, two behind, the fourth being directed backwards ; the first very 
small, the third a little longer than the fourth, all scutellate above ; claws 
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