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Le petit Pic rayé du Senegal, Buf. rff, vii. p. 25,
Petit Pic du Senegal, PL enl, 345. 2.
N°T much bigger than a Sparrow. Bill du(ky : crown red :
forehead and (ides brown: the back is of a golden fulvous
yellow : quills the fame : coverts and rump greenifh : the under
parts of the body tranfverfely undulated with grey brown and
dull white : the two middle tail feathers black; the others black,
fpotted with yellow : legs dufky.
Inhabits Senegal.
Le Pic à tête grifq du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. oif. vii. p, 26.
' 1 ----—■ ■ - PL enLy%6» N° 2.
J^ESS than a Lark. Bill lead-colour : back, neck, and bread,
‘ - olive brown; the reft of the plumage deep grey; the head
lighted: : rump and upper tail coverts red : the tail is black ; and
the quills dulky : the legs are lead-colour.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope.
Pious femiroilris, Lin. Syft. i. p. 17;. N° 14.
Picus maxilla fuperiore breviore, Muf. Adolph. Fred. i. p. 16. *
J KNOW of no one who has defcribed this bird, independent of
the Angularity of the bill, except Linnaus. It is of the fize of
a black Woodpecker. The bill is pale; the lower mandible
much as in others of the genus, but the upper one much ihorter,
very
viry pointed, thin; 4nd lharp at the. tip : the head is brown, each
feather tipped with yellowilh ; making the head appear (potted:
the body on the upper parts is brown, inclining to a(h ; beneath
white : the wings are brown : the outer edges of the quills fpotted
with white : tail brown *.
Inhabits India.
Le Picraye de St. Domingue, Brtf. orn. iv. p. 65. N° 25. pi. 4, f. 1,
' :-------- Buf. oif. vii. p. 27.
---------------------------------- PI. enl. 281.
THIS is a little bigger than the greater fpotted Woodpecker: the
length is eight inches and three quarters. Bill horn-colour :
the forehead, cheeks, and throat, are of an elegant grey: the
crown and hind head red : the upper parts of the body black,
tranfverfely ftriated with olive : quills blackifh, fpotted with yellow
on the outer, and with, whitifh on the inner web : rump and upper
tail coverts red : fore, part o f the neck, breaft, and under wing coverts,
grey brown: belly, lldes, thighs, and under tail coverts, olive :
* Pallas f has me'ntibned his opinion concerning this bird, which, as far as
relates to the bill, he thinks muft be a Lujus Natures, and therefore unnatural f
and inftances a fpecimen of the common green Woodpecker, lately met with in
Germany, wherein the upper mandible was fcarce half as long as the under one.
He gives*alfo two inftances of the fame in the Kingsfijher genus, and one in the
OyJler-catcber. To which I may add the very fame circumftance in a ‘white
Ct^ow in the Leverian Mufettm, whofe upper mandible is juft formed in the fame
manner. Notwithftanding all this, we are ftill indebted to Linnesus. for a
new fpecies, not before defcribed, nor figured by any author, as far as I can
learn.
4 Spicileg. 6. p. 12.
4 f a tail
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