THE 
RED-WINGED WOODPECKER. 
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Generic Character. 
Bill angular, ftrait, cuneated at the tip. 
Nojlrils covered with reflected brifliy feathers. 
Tongue cylindric, worni-lhaped, very long, fliarp- 
pointed, and (generally) aculeated at the tip 
with reflex brillles. 
Feet formed for climbing. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Olive WOODPECKER, tranfverfely undulated 
beneath with brown, with red cretl and wing- 
coverts. 
RED-WINGED WOODPECKER. 
Pennant bid. Zool. p. 39. pi. 6. 
Lath. Synops. 1. p. 595. 
The Picus miniatus or Red-Winged Woodpecker 
is a native of the ifland of Java, and feems to have 
been firft deferibed by Mr. Pennant in his Indian 
Zoology. It is afpecies which appears to vary oc- 
cafionally in color; the prefent fpecimen differing 
in fome particulars from that deferibed by Mr. Pen¬ 
nant. It is reprefented about a third lefs than the 
natural fize. 
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