YELLOW-BELLIED, &c. WOODPECKER. 275 



yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Catejby, i. 21, 1-66. Yellow- 



Picus Variiis, Lin. Syft. x-jG.— Latham, i. 574. bellied. 



Le Pic Varie, Brijfon, iv. 62, 

 Le Pic Varie de Carolina, De Buffon, vii. 77. — Il-Ev. RTus. — Bl. Mus. 



"Y^ With a crimfon crown, furrounded by a line of black : 

 cheeks white, with two lines of black : chin crimfon : breaft 

 and belly light yellow j the firft fpotted with black : coverts black, 

 croiTed by two bars of white : primaries fpotted with black and white : 

 tail black ; interior webs of the two middle feathers barred with 

 white J the two outmoft feathers edged with the fame color. The 

 Female wants the red on the crown. Length nine inches. Weight 

 one ounce thirteen penny-weights. 



Inhabits the fame country with the former. Is very' numerous, and Place. 



very deftruftive to the fruits. 



'T'HIS is inferted on the fufpicious authority ofAlbin*. He fays, 167. Yellow- 



that it is of the fize of the Little Englip Spotted Woodpecker -, 

 that the hind part of the head is black j the ridges of the wings, and 

 the- lower part of the belly, white ; the reft of the plumage, and the 

 tail, black ; the legs yellow. 



Three-toed Woodpecker, Ji/w. 114. — Pbil. Tranf. Ixii. ^?S. — Latham, 1. 600, Soi. jgg_ THt-ZU- 

 Picus Tridaftylus, Lin. Syji, 177. — Faun, Suec. N° 103. toed, 



L-e Pic varie de la Cayenne, Brijfon, iv. 55. — Lev. Mus. 



\X/^ With black feathers reflefled over the noftrils : crown of a 



bright gold color : irides blue : cheeks marked lengthways 



with three black and two white lines : hind part of the neck and back 



• Vol. iii. 3; — BriJoK, iv. 24, who follows Jlbh, calls it, Le Pic ntir de la Nowvelle 

 Jngkterre, 



N n a black.5 



