S 6S WOODPECKER, 



the neck, of agreyifli blackj on each fide of the neck, two-thirds 

 downwards, is a ftripe of white, which begins juft above the eye , 

 and under this another of black from the eye to the fhoulder : 

 upper part of the body black and white : under parts pale yellow, 

 fpotted with black : tail black above, beneath barred with a dirty 

 white and yellowifh colour : bill and legs blackifh. The head 

 had no red on it. 



Buff on fuppofes it to have been a female, and a variety only of 

 our leaft fpotted Woodpecker. 



15. Le grand Pic varie du Mexique, Brif. ortt. iv. p. 57. N° 21 ? 



VARIED Le petit ditto, Ditto p. 59. N° it. 



L'Epeiche du Mexique, Buf. oif. vii. p. 70. 



Quauhchochopitli, feu Avicula Ligna excavans, Fern. H. N. Hifp. ch. 94, 

 1 ■ , Raii Syn. p. 163. 



Description. / ~|~ v HIS is of the fize of the middle fpotted Woodpecker : the whole 



• body covered with black feathers, tranfverfely ftriated with 



white : breaft and belly red : quills and tail black, tranfverfely 



ftriated with white. 



Place and Inhabits the colder parts of Mexico. Buffon thinks this bird 



Remarks. a nd tne greater one of Brijfon, N° 21, to be the fame bird. Ray, 



copying Fernandez, fays, it is as big as a Quail; if fo, it will 



not differ much in fize from the other, which Briffon fays is equal 



to the green Woodpecker. But Klein would almoft perfuade us, 



that this laft is not a Woodpecker, when he talks of its darting. 



down on fiflo into the water, which we know to be rather the 



characteriftic of the Kingfifher than any other-, and, if I may be 



allowed the fuppofition, it is not unlikely to fuppofe, that he means 



9 the 



