WOODPECKER. 



S9* 



Le Pic blanc de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 81. N" 31. 

 Le Pic jaune de Cayenne, Buf. oif. vii. p. 32. 



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Charpentier jaune, Ferm. Defer. de Sarin, vol. ii. p. 171 ? 

 Lev. Mu/l 



YELLOW 

 W. 



'TpHlS is lefs than, our green Woodpecker : being only nine 

 inches in length. The bill is of a yellowifh white, and above 

 an inch long : the hind head is crefted : the head itfelf, the neck, 

 and whole body, covered with dirty white feathers : from the 

 lower jaw to the ears, on each fide, is a red ftripe : the wing 

 coverts are brown, edged with yellowifh ; and fome of the greater 

 ones mixed with rufous on the inner web : quills brown or rufous : 

 tail black : legs and claws grey. 



This is common at Cayenne, and is called there Charpentier 

 jaune. It makes the neft in old trees which are rotten within ; 

 making with its bill a hole from without, at firft horizontal, but 

 declining downwards as foon as it has pierced through the found 

 part, till it is at laft a foot and a half below the firft opening. The 

 female"la.ys three white and nearly round eggs, and the young are 

 hatched about the beginning of April. The male bears his fhare 

 in the work with the female, and in her abfence keeps centinel at 

 the entrance of the hole. The note of this bird is a kind of whittle 

 fix times e repeated,, of which the two or three laft are in a 

 graver accent than- the others. The female wants the red band 

 on the fide of the head, which is feen in the male. 



Specimens vary ; fome are of that dirty white, as Brijfon. 

 defcribes it, others of a light yellow 3 which laft is the cafe in a 



foecimett. 



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