378 March 1749. 



it Hittock, and Piut ; both thefe names liavc a 

 relation to its note ; it is almoft continually on 

 the ground, and is not obferved to pick in the 

 trees ; it lives chiefly on infects, but fbmetimes 

 becomes the prey of hawks ; it is commonly 

 very fat, and its flefh is very palatable. As it 

 flays all the year, and cannot eaiily get infects in 

 winter, it muft doubtlefs eat fome kinds of grafs 

 or plants in the fields. Its form, and fome of 

 its qualities, make it refemble a cuckow. 



Picus Caro/imts, the Carolina Wood-pecker. It 

 lives here likewife, and the colour of its head is 

 of a deeper and more (hining red than Catejby 

 has reprefented it, vol. i. p. 19. t. 19. 



Picus villofus, the fpotted, hairy, middle Jiz'ed 

 Wood-pecker is abundant here ; it deflroys the ap- 

 ple-trees by pecking holes into them. 



Picus erythrocephahiSy the red-beaded Wood- 

 pecker, This bird was frequent in the country, 

 and the Swedes called it merely Hackfpick, or 

 Wood-pecker^ They give the fame name to al> 

 the birds which I now enumerate, the gold- 

 winged wood-pecker excepted. This fpecies is 

 deftruftive to maize-fields and orchards, for it 

 pecks through the ears of maize, and eats ip- 

 ples. In fome years they are very numerous, ef- 

 pecially where fweet apples grow, which they 

 eat fo far, that nothing but the mere peels re- 

 main. Some years ago there was a premiu-n of 

 two pence per head, paid from the public finds, 

 in order to extirpate this pernicious bii i, b t this 

 law has been repealed. They are likewiff very 

 fond of acorns. At the approach of winter 

 travel to the fouthward. But when they lay in 



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