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ilraw-colouredj pafling over the eyes and down the fides of the 

 neck : from the lower mandible a ftreak of black, communicating 

 with the fore part of the neck, which is black : the back, wing: 

 coverts, fcapulars, lower part of the belly, and tail, black : upper 

 half of the quills and fecondaries white j the reft black : the belly 

 and thighs the fame, .marked with faint tranfverfe bars of white r 

 legs black. 

 Plaoe. This was found near four hundred miles up the river Jlbany^,. 



in North America, m the month of January. It is called May- 

 May, and is moQ: probably a. va.rktY of the PikaiedWoodpeckeri. 

 differing chiefly in~the under parts being ftriated with white,. 



9; Red-breafted Woodpecker, Ge>i. Sjn, ii. p. c62. N" q. 



RED-BREAST- 



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**r'HE tail of this bird is wholly black, except one of the mid- 

 dle feathers, which has three fpots of white on one fide of the 

 fliafto The whole length of the bird eight inches and a half. 



Such a bird as this, if not the fame, was met with in Nootka- 

 Sound, on the coaft of North America. It is faid to be " Lefs 

 " than a Thrujh, of a black colour above, with white fpots on the 

 " wing J a crimfon head, neck, and breaft, and ayellowifh olive- 

 ■^^ coloured belly ; from which laft circumftance it might perhaps 

 *' not improperly be called the Tellow-bellied IVoodpeeker *." 



* CookU Laji P''oyage, ii, p. 297. 



Greatest 



