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ORD. Il. GEN. VII. WOODPECKER. 
SPE. I. HAIRY WOODPECKER. 
Pl. 47. 
Picus villofus. Lim. Sy. I. p. 175. 
Le pic varié de Virginie. Bri/. Oru. IV. p. 47. 
This fpecies is in length eight inches and three quarters. The bill is horn 
coloured: eyes reddifh: the head black, with two white lines on each fide, 
arifing from the bafe of the bill, one paffing above the eye, the other beneath it; 
and acrofs the back of the head a band of fearlet: the neck black: the back 
variegated black and white, a lift of white loofe-webbed feathers like hairs pafi- 
ing down the middle: the wings black fpotted with white: the under parts of 
the body wholly white: the four middle tail feathers black; the next on each 
fide obliquely white at the top; the laft but one white, with the bafe black; 
the outer one white: legs grey. In fome the bar on the back part of the head 
is divided in the middle. The female wants the fcarlet on the back of the 
head. 
Till lately this bird was firppofed to be peculiar to North America, but it is 
now known to inhabit the northern parts of this kingdom, of which I was firft 
informed by Mr. Bolton, who met with it near Halifax, in Yorkthire. 

Rmy 
