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white or cream with brown markings. The face, neck, chin and throat are white. A brown band extends from the eye across the ear coverts, and a brown malar streak extends to the breast. The wings are brown above and white below, and the tail is brown with a buff tip and pale underside. The beak is grey with a paler base, the legs are grey or olive and the iris of the eye reddish.
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438:Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide
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404:Trevor Carnaby (2008).
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38:Illustration of male,
725:Dry miombo woodlands
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255:tropical dry forests
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442:ISBN
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