274 DOWNY WOODPECKER. 



white : two middle feathers of the tail black ; the two outmoft en- 

 tirely white J the reft black, marked croflways with white. The fe- 

 male wants the red fpot on the head. Length nine inches. Weight 

 two ounces. 

 Place; Inhabits from Hud/on's Bay * to Carolina. In the laft very deftruc- 



tive to apple-trees. 



165. DowNr. Smalleft Spotted Woodpecker, Catejhy, i. 21. 



Pic-US Pubefcens, LiiuSyJi. 175. — Latham, i. 575. 

 Le Petit Pic varie de la Virginie, Brijfon, iv. 50. 

 Fourth Woodpecker, La=vjJon, 143. 



L'Epeiche ou Petit Pic varie de Virginie, De Buffon, vii. 76. — Lev. Mus 



•Bl. Mus. 



■^l/" Of the fize of a Sparrow. In all refpefts refembles the laft, 



except in fize ; and in having the outmoft feather of the tail 



marked with a fingle white bar. 



Yi.t,t,t. Inhabits Penfylvania and Carolina, and is very numerous. It is alfo 



found, but more rarely, near Albany fort, in Hudfon's Bay. The 



Woodpecker tribe is the mott pernicious of all the birds o? America, 



except the Purple Grakle -, but this little fpecies is the mofl deftruc- 



tive of its whole genus, becaufe it is the moft daring. It is the peft 



•' of the orchards, alighting on the apple-trees, running round the 



bouo-hs or bodies, and picking round them a circle of equidiftant 



holes. It is very common to fee trees encircled with numbers of 



thefe rings, at fcarcely an inch's diftance from each other i fo that the 



tree dries and periflies. 



• Phil, Tranf. Ixii, 388. 



Yellow- 



