WOODPECKER. $55 



over the eye, is a ftreak of white ; and again under this is a 

 broader black ftreak, in which the eyes are placed ; all of which 

 marks tend to the hind head : on each fide of the jaw is a 

 itripe of red, which reaches the whole length of the lower man- 

 dible, and a little way down the neck : the cheeks, throat, fore 

 part and fides of the neck, are of a pale yellow, or buff colour : 

 in the middle of this colour is placed a band of black, which 

 arifes at the corners of the mouth, and paffes down the fides of 

 the neck: the hind part of the neck, back, and rump, are black ; 

 on the middle of the back is a fpot of white ; and another or two 

 of the fame, on the wings : the breaft, belly, fides, thighs, and 

 under tail coverts, are blackifh; the tail itfelf unequal ; the two 

 middle feathers the longeft : legs and claws black. 



The female differs in having no red on the lower jaw, and the Female-. 

 fore part of the head brown * ; but has a red creft, as well as the 

 male. 



This bird is common in Louijiana, Carolina, and Virginia; and, p LA ces an» - 

 according to Kalmf, is frequent alfo in forefts irr Penjylvania, Manners, 

 where it ftays the winter. It is reckoned very hurtful to the 

 Maize, as it fettles on the ripe ears, and deilroys them with its 

 4>ill J ; not that it is known for certain, that thefe birds eat any 



* Buffbn mentions a black Woodpecker met with by M. Ccmmerfon, in the 

 Straits of Magellan, of the fize of the common one, and otherwife like it, except 

 having only the fore part of the head red, the hinder part creited, but black. 



+ Voy. i. p. 148. ; 



\ Kalm adds, " That all the tribe of Woodpeckers are deftru&ive to Maize-t 

 when it begins to ripen ; for, by pecking holes in the membrane round the ear, 

 t he rain gets into it, and caufes the ear, with all the corn it contains, to rot." 

 Kalm. Trav. i. p. 148. 



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