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patch under the eye, both of which were brown : the upper parts 

 of the body and tail brown black, fparingly fpotted with white j 

 the under parts wholly white : legs blue. 



25. 

 +■ GREEN W. 



Green Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 577. N" 25. — Ar^. Zool. ii. p. 277. B. 

 Picus viridis, Brun. N° ^g.—Muller, N° 98. — Sepp. Fog. pi. in p. 43.— 

 Faun. Arag. p. 73. 



'|"*HIS fpecies frequents many parts of the continent of Eu" 

 rope : among others, the weji of RuJJia -, but difappears to- 

 wards Sibiria. Is found as high north as Lapmark, where it is 

 called Zhiaine*. 



The egg in Sepp"?, plate is of a greyifli or yellowilh white, 

 marked with irregular lines of pale yellowifh brown. 



The Jiraw-coloured fpecimen in the Leverian Mufeum was ftiot 

 at Belvoir-Cbafe, the feat of the Duke oi Rutland. 



37- 

 PASSERINE W. 



Paflerine Woodpecker, €en. Syn. Ii. p. 588. N" 37. 



COME of thefe birds from Cayenne came under my infpeftion. 

 Thofe which were called males anfwered to my former defcrip- 

 tion. One marked as z. female had the crown brown, otherwife 

 like the male. In this lail I obferved the tail feathers to be ex- 

 ceedingly worn at the ends j but in the others they were more 

 i-ounded and pliant. 



* Jril-. ZooL 



Cayenne 



