WOODPECKER. 



ftreaft, belly, and vent, dirty white, tranfverfely barred with dufky 

 black : legs black. 



Inhabits Surinam, , Siacs, 



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Picus hirundinaceus, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 174. N^j. - 



Le Pic noir de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Brif. cm. iv. p. 24. N° 7. LESSER BLACK 



Le petit Pic noir, var. Buf. oif. vii. p. 54. 



LefTer black Woodpecker, Albin.m.. pi. 23, 



Am. Z00L N a 



W. 



npHlS is not much bigger than a Swallow : the length is five Bescrietiqn*. 



inches and a half. The bill an inch and a quarter long, and 

 ©fa brown colour: irides whitilh : the colour of the plumage, 

 with a few exceptions, is black : the hind head is red : and the 

 edges of the wings and bottom of the belly white : legs yellow- 

 ifh : claws black. 



This fpecies. inhabits North America. Plage. 



Le petit Pic noir, Buf. oif. vii. p. 54. - 



- de Cayenne, PL enl. 6^4. f. 2* Var. A.. 



Lev. Muf. 



/ *T" S HIS is full as big as the laft, being, according to Buffen, of the Dsscrijtiow-, 



■ fize of the Wryneck. On the head is a red fpot ; over the 

 eye a trace of white ; and towards the hind head a few fmall 

 yellow feathers : down the middle of the breaft, as far as the 

 belly, is a dalh of red : belly and fides mixed black and grey 1 

 lower part of the back and rump white : the reft of the plumage 

 and tail are black, with a blueifh glofs on the head and body. 



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