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barbed; bill of a bluish horn colour, grooved, and wedge-formed, 



like most of the genus; eye dark hazel. The female wants the 

 red on the hind-head, having that part white; and the breast 

 and belly are of a dirty white. 



This, and the two former species, are generally denominated 

 Sap-suckers; they have also several other provincial appella- 

 tions, equally absurd, which it may, perhaps, be more proper 

 to suppress, than to sanction by repeating. 



