WOODPECKER, 6o-t 



The femak is the fame in all things, except the trown of 

 the head, which is black, marked with perpendicular lines o£ 

 \vhite. 



The above bird came from Kamtfchatka ; but this fpecies is Places* 



alfo found in many of the northern parts of Europe ; in Switzer- 

 landy on the high mountains of Lapland, and Dalecarlia '*, as well 

 as in Siberia, f, Aujlria J, and elfe where. 



Forfter || fays, that they are met with about Severn river, in 

 North America, but are not very common there ; and that they 

 live in woods, and feed on worms picked out of trees. He ob- 

 serves that the irides are blue. 



Le Pic vane de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 54. N° 20. 51. , 



L'Epeiche, ou Pic varie onde, Buf.cif.\ii. p. 78. „^Y**;™ T 



» l ' j r, n, , \ SOUTHERN 



ric tacnete de Cayenne, Fl. enl. £53 r THREE-TOED 



Woodpecker with three toes, Bauer. Guian. p. 164. W. 



CIZE of the other. Bill the fame, but afh-colour: crown red : Description. 



the reft of the head and upper parts are black: on the back 

 and rump fome tranfverfe ftripes of white: under the eye a ftreak 

 of white : under parts white; but the fides, thighs, and under 

 wing coverts, are ftriated black and white: quills black, fpotted 

 with white : four of the middle tail feathers black; the next the 

 fame, but is rufous white on the outer edge, about the middle, 

 on the inner web marked with two rufous white fpots ; the two 

 outer ones black at the bafe, and white the reft of their length, 

 fpotted with black on the inner webs and tips : legs cinereous :. 

 claws brown. 



* Faun. Suec. p. 36. N° 103. f Buf. oif. vii. p. 79. 



% Scop. ann. i. p. 49. || Phil, Tianf. 



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