574 WOODPECKER. 



it makes another clofe to the firft, in an horizontal direction ; pro- 

 ceeding till it has made a circle of holes quite round the tree; 

 and the apple-trees in the orchards have often feveral of thefe 

 rings of holes round the ftem, infomuch that the tree frequently 

 dries up and decays. 



20. Picus varius, Lin. Syjl, i. p. 176. N° 20. 



YELLOW- j^g pj c yar - de j a Caroline, Brif. em. iv. p. 62. N° 24. 



C yy — Buf. oif. vii. p. 77. — PI. enl. 785. 



Lefler lpotted yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Kalm. Tr. ii. p. 87. 

 Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Catejb. Car. i. p. 21. — Am.Zool.W 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. *TpHJS is in length kven inches and a half. Bill eleven lines 

 long, and of a lead-colour: crown of the head red, bordered 

 on each fide with black : hind head pale yellow, which paries on 

 each fide over the eyes, forming a band of the fame colour : from 

 the bafe of the bilh, through the eyes, to the hind head, is a band 

 of black; beneath this is another of a pale yellow, which arifes at 

 the noftrils, and goes downwards towards the neck; and again, 

 under this is another black one, which originates at the bafe of 

 the under mandible, parallel to the jaw, after which it bends 

 towards the fore part of the neck, blending itfelf with the 

 black on the fore part of the neck : the throat is red : the fore 

 part of the neck and breaft black, bordered with yellow : the 

 belly of a light yellow, mixed with a little black: fides, thighs, 

 and under tail coverts, white, tranfvei-fely banded with brown : 

 the upper parts of the body are black and white, mixed ; not very 

 different from the greater jotted Woodpecker, but more white : 

 the two middle tail feathers are black, marked on both fides the 



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