194 NATUII A LIST'S CABINET. 



Description, &c. 



transverse black strokes, the tip of a reddish 

 white. This feeds in the same manner as the 

 preceding. 



LITTLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



THIS is exactly like the other for shape and co- 

 lour, but is considerably less ; the wings, when ex- 

 tended, being about ten inches from each point, 

 and its weight about twelve drachms; the breast, 

 throat and belly are of a dunish white; it has a 

 broad streak of red upon the top of the head, 

 the back part of which is black, with a sort of 

 dusky colour about the nostrils; round the eyes 

 to near the middle of the neck, on both sides, is 

 a broad line of white feathers, which terminate 

 with black, except about the ears, where the co- 

 lour is much the same as that of the throat; the 

 covert-feathers of the wings are black ; the prime 

 feathers, and the rest of the covert-feathers beau- 

 tifully spotted with a sort of semicircular white 

 spots ; the middle part of the back white, with 

 "black cross-lines. The hen is distinguished from 

 the cock i>y a white stroke upon the top of the 

 head, where the cock's has a red one. 



