i70 G O L D E N - W I N G WOODPECKER. 



fettling on the headsj and picking out the grain 3 or making holes In 

 the leaves, and letting in the wet, to the deftrudion of the plant*. 

 It breeds and refides the whole year in the country. It extends as 

 high as lat. 50. 31. north; being found near the banks of /f/^cHj 

 river, near four hundred miles from its difcharge into Hudfon's Bay. 

 Lays fix eggs, and brings forth its young in June. The Indians deck 

 tlaeir Calumets with the crefl of this fpecies.. 



158. GoL&EN- Golden-winged Woodpecker, Catefiy,!. 1^. 



WING,, ^ Lg pjj. Ray^ de Canada, Briffon, iv. 70. 



Picus Auratus, Lin. Sjfi. 174. — Latham, i, 597. 



Le Pic aux ailes dorees, De Btijfon, vii. 39, — PI. Enl. 693, — Lev. Mus,— Bl,, 

 Mu-s. 



With a- black bill, bending like that of a Cuckoo : crown- 

 cinereous ; on the hind part a fcarlet fpot : cheeks and under; 

 fide of the neck of a pale red : from each corner of the mouth a- 

 black line extends along the cheeks : the upper part of the breaft is 

 marked with a black crefcent ; the remainder and the belly whitifh, 

 fpotted with black : back and coverts of wings of a fine pale brown,, 

 barred with black : the primaries cinereous ; their fhafts of a moft. 

 elegant gold-color ; the under fide of the webs of a gloffy yellow : 

 rump v\rhite,. fpotted with black : tail black, edged, with white : the 

 fliafts.of all the feathers gold-colored, except thofe of the tw;o mid- 

 die feathers : legs dulky. Length twelve inches. Weight five- 

 ounces. The Female wants the black on' each fide of the throat. 

 "*'^^° Inhabits from Hudj'ons Bay to Caroli!iay.a.nd again on the weftern fide 



of North America. In the firft is migratory, appearing in Jp.ril, and.' 

 leaving the country in Sepemher. All the American Woodpeckers, 

 agree with thofe ol Europe in building in hollow trees, and in laying 

 fix white eggs. The natives oiHudJon^s Bay call this fpecies, On-thee- 



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