592 WOODPECKER. 



fpecimen in the Leverian Mufeum •* this is thirteen inches in 

 length. 



In the place referred to above, we find a bird imperfectly 

 defcribed by Mr. Fermin : he merely fays, that it is a large fpecies : 

 that it has a fine red creft on the head : the neck, breaft, and 

 belly, of a citron-colour: and the wings blueifh above. He only 

 adds, that it may be diftinguiflied from others by the ftrokes of 

 the bill, which it gives to the trees, and may be heard at a great 

 diftance. 



42. Le Pic mordore, Buf. oif. vii. p. 34, 



FERRUGINOUS Picjaune tachete de Cayenne, PI. enl. 524. the male. 



Ferruginous Woodpecker, Amer. Zool. ISf° 



Description; 



Lev. Muf. the female. 



CIZE of the green Woodpecker : length eleven inches. Bill 



black : head crefted : the creft of a dark yellowifh cream- 

 colour : the upper parts of the body of a reddifh cinnamon-colour, 

 marked fparingly with yellowifh white fpots : on each fide of the 

 throat a large fpot of crimfon : the lower part of the back yel- 

 lowifh afh-colour : the tail and legs black. 



Buffon's bird was of a brighter colour: he calls his colour, on 

 the upper parts, a bright, brilliant, gilded red*; and fays, that 

 the creft is yellow : the rump was likewife yellow in his bird. 

 My defcription is taken from one in the collection oiCapt. Davies. 



* " Vn heau rouge ■vtf, brillant & dore." This is no doubt his mordore colour ; 

 but in all the fpecimens which I have feen, it has been more of a rujl-cokur, or 

 (innamon. 



The 



