Soo WOODPECKER. 



'bars of a paler colour: the fhafts of the quills and tail are yel- 

 lowifh : the laft is two inches long, black above, and olive yel- 

 low beneath, with the ends forked, like the two laft defcribed : 

 legs black. 

 T-i-ace-. In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks, from the Cape of Good 



Hope. 



Si- *'*With THREE TOE S. , 



NORTHERN 

 THREE-TOED Picus tridaftylus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 177. N° zi.—Scop. an*, i. p. 49. N° 56. 



W - —Phil. Tranf. vol. lxii. p. 388. 



Three-toed Woodpecker, Ediu. vol. iil. pi. 1 14 # — Amer. Zoo!. N° 

 Br. Mvf. Lev. Mttf. 



Description.. I" ENGTPI eight inches and a half. Bill near an inch long ; 

 the upper mandible dufky, the under white ; tips of both 

 dufky, and broader at the bafe than in any of the tribe : the 

 crown of the head of a golden yellow : fides of the head, before 

 and beneath the eye, dotted with black and white : from the eye, 

 on each fide, is a ftreak of white : down the middle of the back 

 white: upper parts of the body and wings black: on the wing 

 coverts a few white fpots : quills fpotted with white: chin, 

 throat, and breaft, white : belly tranfverfely ftriated black and 

 white: the tail confifts of ten* feathers ; the two middle ones are 

 black, fpotted on the inner webs with white ; the others are 

 black alfo, more or lefs marked with orange buff at the ends, ex- 

 cept the outmoft, which is white, and the outer web buff-colour 

 the whole length : the legs have three toes only, two before and 

 one behind. 



• Pallas fays, that there are twelve — it is a new obfervation. In the fpeci- 

 mens which I have feen. there were only ten. See Spic. N° 6. p. 11. note*-. 



The 



