White Woodpecker

24.0 cm. Head creamy white. Loral line and a narrow stripe from the lower rear corner of the eye curving backwards and down the side of the neck, black. <NThe male has a lemon yellow lower hindneck. Mantle, scapulars, upper back, upper wing coverts and tertials black. Lower back, rump and upper tail coverts white. Underparts white to creamy white, the lower belly yellow. <NThe female lacks yellow on the hindneck. Call a "kirr kirr kirr kirr". "Kri-rir". Singles or in small groups foraging in trees at all heights. Opens nests of wasps and bees. Uncommon in humid forest, forest edge and in open scrubby areas with scattered trees, gallery forest, dry subtropical forest, savannahs: often found in cultivated areas. Throughout inland areas. In coastal Estado S<C4>o Paulo found at <8E>Boa Vista, Iguape, Ipanema, PE Jacupiranga, Itapeva, Itarar<CA>, Fazenda Intervales, Pindamonhangaba, S<C4>o Jose do Barreiro ^119 , Itatiaia Remold, unpubl. . Locally to 2200 meters 284 Call. 10<10>18<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel do Ype, above 1600 meters . Clouds, foggy, showers, 23<91>C. Primary forest, bamboo.: 15418 Calls. Fazenda Intervales. 10<10>25<10>00. Cloudy, 20<91>C, thunderstorms. Open secondary forest border and fields near Sede. With /Turdus rufiventris .: 10925 >: