S7 o WOODPECKER. 



Place. Inhabits Canada, Buffon fuppofes it to be the Quauhtotofoth r' of 



Fernandez *, above quoted. 

 Female. That in PL enl. mu-ft mean the female, as it has no orange on 



the hind head ; nor is the front of a dirty white. 



>7* Picus Carolinus, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 174. N a 10. ■ ■ 



^r~\ ft T) (~\\ TXT A- ■" 



• w ^ Le Pic varie de la Jamaique, 2?r(/I orn. iv. p. 59. N° 23. 



L' Epeiche, ou Pic varie de la Jamaique, Buf. oif. vii. p. 72. 



Pic varie femelle de la Jamaique, PL enl. 597. 



Carolina Woodpecker, Kalm. trav. ii. p. 86. 



Jamaica Woodpecker, Ediu. vol. v. p. 244. — Sloan. Jam. p. 299. N° 15 = 



t. 255. f. 2. 

 Red-bellied Woodpecker, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 19. f. z. — A. Zoo/. N" 



Besgrsletlon. '"IpHlS is bigger than our greater fpotted Woodpecker : length 

 ten inches and a half. The bill is black, and an inch and 

 a half in length : hides hazel: the crown of the head, and upper 

 part of the- neck behind, are bright red : the cheeks yellowifii 

 white : the upper parts of the body black, marked with tranfverfe 

 narrow whitiih lines : throat and fore part of the neck, as far as 

 the breaft, dirty olive ; becoming red by degrees, as it ap- 

 proaches the belly : the lower parts of the belly and thighs are 

 marked with tranfverfe brown lines : the tail is black : the outmoft 

 feather dotted' with white on the outer edge : legs and claws 

 black. 



» Fernandez fays, it is tamed and kept in houfes : of the fize of a Starling : that 

 it is black, fpotted with white : that it makes holes in trees, and feeds in the 

 iame manner as other Woodpeckers ; but does not mention, that it has red on any 

 part of the body. 



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