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■ CARDINAL
W.
Le Pic Cardinal de l’Ifle de Luçon, So«. Voy. p. 72. pi. 35.
Le grand Pic varié de l ’Ifle de Luçon, B u f. o f . vii. p. 67.
.Description- iglZE of our green Woodpecker. Bill blackilh ; the fëàthërs
round the bafe of the upper mandible are grey, with a càft of
green : the crown and hind head are of a bright red : oil each
fide from the eye behind, and down the neck, almoft to the wing,
is a ftripe of white : the back and wing coverts are black, but the
feathers on the lower part of the neck, and upper part of the
back, are margined with white, and the wings are fpotted with
the fame: the quills and tail are black, with yellow lhafts j the
greater quills are fpotted on the edges with yellow, and the lelfer
ones tranfverfely barred with white : the throat, breaft, and belly,
are white, marked with longitudinal black fpots : the legs are
blackilh : the tail fèems fpotted in the plate, but is not menf-
tioned in the defcription.
P lace. Inhabits the ille of Luzonia.
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NUBIAN
W.
L’Epeiche de Nubie onde & tacheté, Buf. oif. vii. p. 66.
Pic tacheté de Nubie, PL enl. 667.
D escription* /TpI US is one-third lefs than the greater fpotted Woodpecker :
length feven inches and a half. The bill is black : irides
pale brown : the crown is black, dotted with white : the forehead
brownilh: from that to the eye whitilh : chin the fame : the.hind
head crimfon, and fomewhat crefted : the reft of the neck and
breaft whitilh, marked with black fpots, fhapéd like tears : the
upper parts of the body molt agreeably and irregularly mixed
9 with
with white, rufous, and brown: tail barred rufous and brown;
the thighs and vent are whitilh : legs blue.
I fuppofe, from the name, it is a native oUhedefirts o f Nubia, Place.
though Buff on does not fay as much, only -that it is a <new
Jpecies.
Lc petit Epeiche brundes Moluques, Buf. oif vii. p. 68.
Petit Pic d«s Moluques, PI. ml. 74». f. 2.
S IZ E of our little Woodpecker. H dulky : the upper parts of
the body are brownilh black, waved with white; beneath
■ Whitilh, perpendicularly dafhed with brown: fides of the head
white; beneath -the eye a dalh of brown : the vent is white : the
tail feathers brown 5 the webs have on each fide three white dots;
■ quills are alfo fpotted with white : legs dulky.
Inhabits the Molucca IJlands.
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ÏROWN
W.
D'ESC RlPTIOff'.'
P L ACE*
Picus viridis, tin . Syjl. i. p. -175. N° n .—Sct>f. am. i. p. 47. N° 32.
-Le Pic verd, Brif. om. iv. p. 9. N° 1.
-------------- Buf. oif. vii. p. 7. pi. i .-^ P l.m l. 371. 879.
Grun-fpecht, Frifcb. t. 3;.
Picus viridis, Raii Syn. p. 42. A. 2.
Woodfpite, Rain-fowl, Higk-hoe, Hew-hole, Will. on. p. 13;. t. 21.
Green Woodpecker, Albin. i. pi. 18— Br. Zool. N" 84.—Amer. Zool. N*
>Br, Muf, Lev, Muf,
HIS is a large fpecies, being in length thirteen inches : it Descrjptios
weighs fix ounces and a half. The bill is two inches in
length, dulky, and of a triangular lhape: the irides o f two
colours j the inner circle reddilh, the outer white : the crown of
4 E the
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