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Inhabits Cayenne. I have ventured to place the Ipecu, as Place. 



fynonymous with the above-defcribed, rather than with the laft 

 but one, as Linnaeus and Brijfon have both done, for many reafons : 

 the Ipecu is faid to be as big only as the green Woodpecker, while 

 the other is of the fize of a Crow : fecondly, the former has a horn- 

 coloured bill, while that of the latter is as white as ivory, and 

 twice as long:, and thirdly, the under parts of the body, in this 

 bird, are variegated ; whereas in the white-hilled they are plain. 



Buffcn thinks, that this may prove the Tlauhquechultototl of 

 Fernandez * ; and it may alfo be the bird meant by M. Fermin- 

 above quoted, though this circumftance can only be gueffed at, as 

 he merely fays, that it is black, with the top of the head cinnabar : 

 as to the name Charpentier (or Carpenter) it is by no means cha- 

 racterifticj it being a common name given to the Woodpecker 

 tribe in general, by the inhabitants of South America. There is 

 alfo another Mack Woodpecker, copied from Seba -f , by Brijfon J, 

 which is wholly of that colour, croffed with zigzag lines of light 

 grey, on the wings and under parts. Buffon would have this re- 

 jected, not being certain of the genus, as well as two others |[,. 

 as Seba talks of their feeding onfijh, and calls them Herons; but 

 what they really are will perhaps never be determined- 



• See Rait Syn. p. 162. 



•f- Ardese Mexicans fpecies fingularis, SeB. vol. I. t. 65. L 2: 

 X Le Pic noir du Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 25. N° 8. 



|i See Picverd du Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 16. N° 3. and Grand Pic variS 

 du Mexique, p. 57. N° 2©. 



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