W O O D P E C K E R, S99 



Lev. Muf. 49- 



Var. A. 



1 HAVE lately feen r in the Mufeum above referred to, a bird Describti&h;. 



which appears to be a mere variety, though brought from a 

 far difFerent country. This was much like the laft defcribed in 

 colour, but rather lefs in fize. The bill exactly made like that 

 bird, and brown r on each fide of the jaw is a ftripe of crimfon, 

 like a whifker: the under part of the wings of a pale red colour, 

 not unlike what is called red lead: and the (hafts of the quills 

 and tail, which in the other bird are yellow, in this are red : the 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body is brown ; beneath vi- 

 naceous, marked with round black fpots : tail black, pointed, and 

 each feather bifurcated at the tip, exactly like the American one. 



This was brought from the Cape of Good Hope. I have ken Place, 



two fpecimens of this bird. 



50. 

 CRIMSON- 

 BREASTED 

 W 

 T ENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill two inches long, bent 



like that of the gold-winged Woodpecker, rounded like it, and 

 pointed at the tip ; the length of it two inches, and black : the 

 upper parts of the head, neck, and body, are dufky olive brown, 

 faintly dotted with paler brown : rump very palecrimion, marked 

 with fpots of a pater colour, in the fame manner as the reft of the 

 upper furface: quills dark brown, marked on each fide of the 

 web with oblique pale cream-coloured bars : throat and fore parr 

 of the neck dufky brown, marked with faint fpots of a paler co- 

 lour : lower part of the neck and the breaft pale crimfon, not un- 

 like the breaft of a Linnet : vent dufky brown, marked with faint 



bars- 



