(WHITE-BELLIED WOODPECKER.)
+Leuconerpes candidus+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 445 (Paraná,
Cordova); _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 100; _Salvin, Ibis_, 1880,
p. 361 (Salta); _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 618 (Misiones);
_Barrows, Auk_, 1884, p. 25 (Entrerios).
_Description._--Above white; wings and upper back, with a line on
each side running up to the eye, black; nape tinged with yellow:
beneath white; tail black, with white cross bands: whole length 11·0
inches, wing 5·5, tail 4·5. _Female_ similar, but without the yellow
on the nape.
_Hab._ S. Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Northern Argentina.
Prof. Burmeister met with this peculiarly coloured Woodpecker near
Paraná, and Mr. Barrows found it resident in Entrerios, though not very
abundant.
White speaks of this species as follows:--"These noisy birds, abundant
in various parts of Misiones as well as in the rest of the north of
the Republic, go about in flocks of eight or ten, and settle on the
same tree, which they proceed to ascend very comically in a spiral or
corkscrew fashion, each head touching the preceding tail. They are not
seen in dense forests, but only out in the open, on some old, usually
dead, tree, and I think I observed them as far south as the sierras of
Cordoba."