WOODPECKER. 



105 



White-billed Woodpecker^ 

 N" 156. 



Gen. Syn, ii. p. 553. N" 2. — ArB. ZooL 



T ENGTH twenty inches. Bill the colour of the whiteft 

 ivory, and very blunt at the end : general colour of the plu- 

 mage deep black : the head is crefted at the back part, and flnifhes 

 in a point ; the whole of the top of the head, as well as the creft-, 

 black : from the hind part of the eye begins a line of white, which 

 pafTes down on each fide of the neck and back ; at the lower part 

 of the laft, the two flripes unite in a point : the firfi: four quills 

 are plain black ; the fifth is alfo black, with a white tip, and two 

 fpots of white on the inner web ; the fixth and feventh black, 

 with the ends and whole of the inner webs white j all the other 

 quills wholly white : the under wing coverts are white : the tail 

 black, very ftiff, and the feathers greatly incurvated : legs dufky 

 blue : claws black. 



I apprehend this to be the female of the wbite-bzHed {pecies, 

 from its having no red about it; a circunaftance not uncommon in 

 that fex o( the Woodpecker tribe. 



I met v?ith the fpecimen at Mr. Humphries'^, dealer in curiofi- 

 ties, in Long-Acre, among others, in a colleflion which came from 

 Carolina. 



2. 



WHITE-BIL- 



LED W. 



Female ? 



Description, 



Plicated Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 554. N" 3. — Aril. Zool. ii. N" 157. 



T N Mr. Hutchins's manufcript I obferve a Woodpecker fimilar to 

 this. Length feventeen inches and a half; breadth twenty- 

 eight and a half; weight nine ounces and a quarter, Troy. Bill 

 lead-colour : forehead greenifh yellow : crown crimfon : lore 

 Suppi,. P ftraw- 



PILEATED 

 W. 



