59^ WOODPECKER. 



48. Le petit Pic de Cayenne, Brif. om. iv. p. 83. N° 32, 



MINUTE L e tres p et j t p; c de Cayenne, B-uf. oif. vii. p. 37. 



Petit Pic de Cayenne, PL enl. 786. I. 



— — — Ferm. Defer, de Sarin, vol. ii. p. 170. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. C^IZE of a Wren : in length three inches and a half. The bill 

 is black ; top of the head red : the hind head black, dotted 

 with white : fides of the head brown, dotted with white alfo : the 

 upper parts of the body are dirty greyifh rufous : the under parts 

 are greyifh white ; the feathers bordered with brown : quills and 

 tail brown, with paler edges : legs brown. 



Briffon fays, the four middle tail feathers are brown ; the next on 

 each fide the fame on the outfide, but rufous white on the inner 

 web, margined with brown ; and the two outer ones half brown, 

 half rufous white, tipped with brown. 



Fermin tells us, that the head arid hind part of the neck are 

 of a cinnabar colour, the tail black, and the feathers which 

 cover the wings fprinkled towards the end with yellowifh. 

 white. 



Thefe different accounts incline one to think, that they mufh 

 have been defcribed from oppofite fexes. 

 Place. Inhabits Cayenne.. 



Picas 



