270 SCANSORES. PICID.E. 



the most docile, but the beauty and superior size 

 of the Yellow-bill causes it to be preferred for 

 the cage. One in full plumage, and able to arti- 

 culate with distinctness, usually fetches about twenty 

 shillings in the towns. 



Robinson, in enumerating the Jamaican Psittacidce, 

 distinguishing them from introduced specimens, men- 

 tions in addition to those I have given, " the Moun- 

 tain Parroquet." (MSS. ii. 88.) 



FAM. PICID^E. (The Woodpeckers.) 

 YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 

 Picus varius. LINN. 

 Aud.pl. 190. 



FOUR or five specimens of this beautiful Wood- 

 pecker, all females, occurred to us, in the months of 

 December, January, and February ; but at no other 

 time was it seen. I have no doubt it is a winter 

 migrant from the northern continent, where, how- 

 ever, Wilson states that it abides all the year. I 

 have nothing to give of its history : its manners, as 

 far as observed, were those common to the tribe ; 

 the stomachs of such as I dissected, contained wood- 

 boring larvae. 



* Length 8| inches, expanse 15^, flexure 5, tail 3, rictus 1 T %, tar- 

 sus , middle toe f . 



