WOODPECKER. 



the Alcedo Alcyon, which acts in this manner. Inhabits Mexico^ 

 as well as other parts of America -, and anfwers to his colour very 

 nearly *. 



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Le Pic varie de Canada, Brif. orn. iv. p. 45. N* 16. pi. 2. f. 2. 

 L'Epeiche du Canada, premilre efpece, Buf. oif. vii. p. 69. 

 Picdu Canada, PL tnl. 345. 1. 

 Quauhtotopotli alter, Fernand. Hift. Nov. Hifp. ch^ 165. p. 47 J 



■ ■ — , Rail Syn. p. 162. 



Spotted Woodpecker, Jmtr. Zool. N° 



CANADIAN 

 SPOTTED 



W. 



OIZE of the greater Woodpecker : length nine inches. Bill 

 fifteen lines long, and of a horn-colour : upper parts of the 

 body blade, with a mixture of white in the middle of the back: 

 under parts whitifh : head black : forehead dirty white : on each 

 fide is a broad white band, paffing above the eyes, and joining a 

 pale orange one on the hind head : under the eye is another white 

 band, which widens as it proceeds downwards on the fides of the 

 neck : wing coverts and quills fpotted with white : the two" 

 middle tail feathers are; black ; the next has a dirty white fpot 

 near the tip ; and the three outer ones have the ends marked ob- 

 liquely with white ; the two outmoft ones being wholly white* 

 except at the bafe': legs grey brown. 



Description. 



* The upper parts are dark afti : quills fpotted white : belly white, with the 

 middle rufous in one fex ; and is white both before and behind the eye befides. 

 Klein names it Jaculator cinereus. See Klein aw. 127. N° 2. 



4 D Inhabits 



