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if} aft with white ; the two next on each fide plain black ■, and the 

 outer ones black on the outer web, and fpotted with white on the 

 inner at the tip : legs and claws blackifh. 



The female differs in having no red about her*, and the throat Female. 

 and hind head white* as- well as the ftripes on the fides of the 

 head, which are yellow in the male.. 



This fpecies inhabits Virginia, Carolina,, and Cayenne. Kalm Places. 



gives this as bad a character as the two laft, in refpefl to the da- 

 mage it does to the apple-trees^ 



E'Epeiche, ou Pic varie de la Encenada, Euf. oif. vii. p. 74. 2 j. 



PL tnl. 748. 1. the male. ENCENADA 



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rPHIS is a trifle bigger than our leaf): fpotted Woodpecker; and, Description, 



according to Buffon-, is one of the moft beautiful of its race : 

 the length in the plate is about fix inches. The bill is of a lead- 

 colour: the irides white: the plumage in general confifts only of 

 two colours, grey-brown and white ; but thefe are irregularly 

 blended together, fo as to render it extremely beautiful; above, 

 thefe colours are mixed tranfverfely, and beneath, in a perpendi- 

 cular direction : the head is crefted, and mixed on the fides with 

 crimfon : fides of the head white, verging to brown under the- 

 eye : the quills are brown, dotted with white : legs lead- 

 coloured. 



The head of the female is wholly brown, and it is deflitute of a Female,. 

 creft. 



* So Catejby fays ; but Linnceus remarks, that the female has the crown red ; 

 ythich is in the right I cannot determine, not having feen it» 



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