2(58 1VHITE-BII.LED WOODPECKER. 



X. WOODPECKER. Gen. Birds, XXI. 



156. White- Quatotomomi, Fernand. Mex. ^o, — Tfil. Orn. 7,go. 



*'^^^°* Jpecu, Marcgra've, 207. — Wil. Orn. 138. — Raii Syn. ^ad. 43. — Latham, ii, 553. 



Picus principalis, Lin. Syjf. 173, 



Largeft Wliite-bill Woodpecker, Catejly, i. 16. — Lavjfon, 142. — Barren Fr. 

 ^ ' Equin. 143. — Kalm, ii. 85. 



Grand Pic noir a bee blanc, De Buffon, vii. 46. — P/. £«/. 690. 



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With a bill of ivory whitenefs ; great ftrength ; three inches 

 long : irides yellow : a conic creft, of a rich fcarlet color, 

 on the hind part of the head : head, throat, neck, breaft, and belly, 

 black : beneath each eye is a narrow ftripe of white, crooked at its be- 

 ginning, running afterwards ftrait down the fides of the neck : upper 

 part of the back, priniary feathers, and coverts of the wings, black j 

 lower part of the back, and the fecondaries, white : tail black. 



This is a gigantic fpecies, weighing twenty ounces j and in bulk 

 equal to a Crow. 

 Place. Inhabits the country from New Jerfey to the Brafils. Is in North 



America a fcarce bird ; in South America more common. It breeds 

 in the kingdom of Mexico in the rainy feafon ; for which reafon 

 Nieremherg ftyles it Picus hnhrifcetus *. The Spaniards call them 

 Carpenteros, Carpenters, on account of the multitude of chips which 

 they hew out of the trees, either in forming their nefts, or in fearch 

 of food, infefbs, and worms, which lurk beneath the bark. They are 

 very defbruflive to trees ; for they have been known to cut out a 

 meafure of chips in an hour's time f . Inftinft direds them to forrrj 

 their holes in a winding form, in order the better to protedt their 

 nefts from the injury of the weather J. 



Eu/eb. Nkremlerg. f Catejhy. \ Barrere. 



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