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Heart-Spotted Woodpecker 
(Gõ kiến đen họng trắng, Hemicircus canente)

The heart-spotted woodpecker is a species of bird in the woodpecker family.

Piciformes, picidae, picus: woodpecker.
The genus name Hemicircus is from the Ancient Greek: 'hemi meaning "half" or "small", kerkos meaning "tail".
canente: from Roman mythology: Canens was a sweet-voiced nymph, her husband was Picus.

Hemicircus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. Members of the genus are found in India and Southeast Asia.
The genus name is from the Ancient Greek: 'hemi meaning "half" or "small", kerkos meaning "tail".

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