enn samen 
~The Natural Hijflory of JAMAICA. 
299° 
XIV. Afonedula tota nigra. Tab. 257. Fig. 2. Raij. fyn. p. 185, 
The Small Black-Bird. 
his is from the Bills end to the end of the Tail twelve Inches, about 
fixteen meafur’d broad Ways, the Wings being extended. The Bill ig 
black, one Inch long, pointed with no rifing as the other of the fame Name 
hath, and like a Magpyes. The Head is proportionably large to the Body, 
the Neck is two Inches long, the Tail five Inches in Length, the Feachers 
all over are black, the Legs and Feet are three Inches long, black, and. 
fcaly. He has four Toes, three before and one behind, the middle one of 
thofe before being the longeft is more then an Inch in Length, they 
have all crooked Claws, tho’ they are neither long nor fharp. 
Its Stomach is mufcular like thofe of its Kind, and it was full of 
Beetles and the Remains of other Vermin. 
They areto be met with onthe Road between Paffage-F ort and the 
Town of St. Fago de la Vega very frequently. 
XV. Picus varius medius. Tab. 255. Fig. 2. Raij. yn. p. 1815 AA 
Ipecu Marcg. p. 207. Wailughb. p. 138. Tab. 22? 
The Woodpecker: 
This was ten Inches long, and fourteen Inches from the Tip of 
one Wing to that of the other extended, the Bill was an Inch long, 
ftrait, roundifh, black, and pointed, the Tail was three Inches long 
and forked, the end of the Tongue was hard and pointed. Above the 
Bill was Down of a yellowifh white Colour, the Head was brown, the 
back Pare and Neck of it of a fcarlet, the Back, Wings, and Tail black, 
with white tranfverfe Stroaks or Lines, the Neck, Breaft, and Belly, 
between an Orange and brown Colour, the Feet and Legs were an Inch 
and an half long, cover’d with greenifh yellow Scales, the Toes four, 
and plac’d two before and as many behind; they had fharp, crooked, 
brown and pretty long Claws. 
This had a pretty large Stomach, with no feparable inward Ment- 
brane, the Contents of it were feveral Sorts of Berries on which it fed, 
the Gall Bladder was long, and lay on the Guts, it was fhap’d like 
Hippocrates’s Bag, being Pyramidal. The Guts were every where very 
wide and the Fat yellow. The Tongue had on its upper part, a fharp, 
hard, two edg’d half Inch long and black Point, fomething like an Arrow 
Head joined to its End, having Prickles, or being indented on each fide, 
by which it kills the Cofs, and other Infects in the Truncs of the Trees, 
bringing them out, tho’ deeply lodg’d in them. 3 
_ They are every where in the Woods. 
They love the Indian Pepper, or Capficam very much. 
XVI. Téferus minor nidum fufpendens. Raij. [ym p. 184. An Ipujuba fea 
Japs Bralilienfibus Marcg. p. 193. ed..1648 ? Willaghd. Angl. 1422 Tab. 23? 
The Watchy Picket, or, Spanifh Nightingale. 
This Bird was fix Tiches tag from the end of the Bill to that of 
the Tail, and nine Inches long from the end of Wing to Wing ex- 
tended, the ‘Bill was ftrait, pointed, thick at the beginning - and 
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