112 WOODPECKER. 



creft : the throat and fore part of the neck rufous yellow: lefler 

 wing coverts crimfon : quills dufky red on the outer, and brown 

 marked with roundilh white fpots on the inner webs : the breafts 

 belly, and vent, are rufous white, crolTed with black bands : the 

 back dirty reddifh grey : rump pale greenilh yellow, croflTed with 

 black bands : tail black ; the feathers rereiarkably ftiff", and the 

 fhafts prominent : legs black, 

 Tlace. Inhabits Malacca^ 



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WITH THREE TOES. 



TMirijur Three-toed Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 600. N" 51. 



TOED W. Picus tridaftylus, GeorgiReife, p. 165. 



'E are informed, that this fpecies is found as low on the Eu- 

 ropean continent as Woronefch on the river Don, though in 

 lefs plenty than the other kinds. The female is faid to have the 

 crown white, where the male is red, and has more white about her 

 in the other parts of the body *. In Sibiria it is almofl: as common 

 as other fpecies. Inhabits the parts about the Lake Baikal \. 



I have received feveral from Hudfon's Bay, which vary much in 

 fize; the largeft is nine inches and three quarters in length. 

 Some had the fides of the belly barred tranfverfely with black and 

 white, others not: fomc had the back plain black, in others it 

 was fpotted with white j but all were probably of one fcx, as the 

 Iieads were yellow. 



5 Dei. Ruf. I. ^.\Q0. t Georgi. 



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