a72 CAROLINA AND SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



bars : breaft and belly white : legs black. The head of the Female 

 is brown. Length nine inches and a half. Weight two ounces. 

 Place. Inhabits Penfylvania, and the neighboring provinces. Feeds on 



maize and apples ; and is a mofl: deftrudtive fpecies. They pick out 

 all the pulp, and leave nothing but the mere rind. They feed alfo 

 on acorns. They were formerly" profcribed ; a reward of two pence 

 was put on their heads : but the law was repealed. They migrate 

 fouthward at approach of winter. When they are obferved to linger 

 in numbers in the woods, in the beginning of winter, the inhabi- 

 tants reckon it a fign of a mild feafon *. 



This fpecies extends acrofs the continent to the weftern coaft of 

 America. 



161. Carolina. Red-bellied Woodpecker, Calefy, '\, 19. ^ 



Picus Carolinus, Lin. Syji. 174. — Latham, i. 57&. 

 Le Pic varie de la Jamaique, Brijfon, iv. 59. — De Buffon, vii. 73. 

 Woodpecker of Jamaica, Edia. 244.^ — Bl. Mus. 



W With the forehead, crown, and hind part of the head,, of an" 

 orange red ; under fide of a light afh-color, tinged with yel- 

 low : the vent fpotted with black : the back and wings clofely 

 barred with black and white : middle feathers of the tail black, the 

 outmoft barred with black and white. The crown of the female is 

 light grey : hind part of the head red. Length eleven inchesv 

 Weight two ounces eleven penny-weights^ 

 Place. Inhabits North America, and the greater Antilles.. 



»6z. Spotted. Great Spotted Woodpecker ? Br. Zool. 1. N" 85. — Latham^ 1. 564.- 



Le Pic varie, Brijfon, iv. 34. — De Buffon, vii. 57. — PI. Enl. 196. 595. 

 Picus Major, Faun. Suec. N° 100. — Lev. Mus. — Bl.Mus. 



"WT With buff forehead ; black crown, bounded behind with a 



crimfon band : vent feathers crimfon : back black : fcapulars 



white : wings and tail barred with black and white: breaft and belly 



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