602 WOODPECKER. 



Female. The female has no red on the head, nor any mark of white on 



the back and rump. 

 Places. This is Brijfon's defcription, who informs us, that it came from 



Cayenne ■, but adds, that it is likewife found in North America and 

 Europe : likening that of Edwards to his bird j which, however, 

 differs in fome particulars. 



Buffon fcarce feems reconciled to a three-toed Woodpecker being 

 found in South America ■, however, we are allured by Bancroft that 

 fuch an one is met with there, and he defcribes it particularly. 

 His bird was the fize of the European one : the colour black and 

 white mixed : the top of the head, and under the belly, bright 

 crimfon. The bird figured in the Planches enluminees has four 

 toes, placed two and two j and has two ftreaks on each fide of 

 the head, one behind, and the other beneath the eye ; otherwile 

 not greatly unlike Brijfon's bird. The whole feems to want fur- 

 ther illuftration. I have as yet feen only fuch fpecimens as inha- 

 bit the northern parts. 



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