WOODPECKER. 



57# 



Blcus pubefcens, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 175; N* 15. 



Le petit Pic varie de Virginie, Brif. orn.iv. p. 50. N 9 18. 



L'Epeiche, ou petit Pic varie de Virginie, Buf. oif. vii. p. 76. 



Smalleft Woodpecker, Catefb. Car. i. pi. 21. 



Leaft fpotted Woodpecker, Kalm. Tr. ii. p. 87. 



Little Woodpecker,, Am. Zool. N°. 



Lev. Muf. 



'T'HIS is fo like the laft fpecies as to be almoft taken for it, 

 were it not confiderably lefs in fize, weighing, according to 

 Qatejby, only fourteen pennyweights*; but Brijfon defcribes it as 

 fomewhat bigger than our European fmalleft fpecies : the length is 

 five inches and a half. The bill is eight lines long, and of a 

 horn-colour:, top of the head black j on each fide above the eye 

 is a white line : hind head red : hind part of the neck, the back, 

 and rump, are black; which is, like jhe laft, divided into two 

 parts by a line of white, paffing down the middle to the rump : the 

 fcapulars, and upper wing and tail coverts, are black ; the greater 

 wing coverts and quills fpotted with white : the under parts of 

 the body pale grey : tail black ; the four middle feathers plain ; 

 the reft barred with white and black : legs and claws black. 



The female has no red on the hind head. Linnaeus, obferves 

 that the outer tail feather is white, marked with four black. 

 fbots. 



This fpecies inhabits Virginia and Carolina. v 



According to Kalm-, this fpecies abounds in New: Jerfey, where 

 k is accounted of all others the moil dangerous to orchards, and 

 As foon as it has pecked one hole in a tree, 



is the moft daring. 



• Aa. ounce, and a half, Hifi. des-eif. 



19. 

 LITTLE 



W. 



Description. 



Femae-b, 



Placed 



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