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is a black line, extending to the under mandible ; the feathers at the 

 base of the beak, throat, front of the neck, breast, and belly, whitish, 

 the latter spotted with black. 



This has some affinity to the Canada Spotted Species, 



60— CAROLINA WOODPECKER. 



Picus Carolinus, Ind. Orn. i. 231. Lin. i. 174. Gm. Lin. i. 431. Gen. Zool. ix. 182. 

 varius Jamaicensis, Bris.'w. 59. Id. 8vo. ii. 58. Sloan. Jam. 229. 15. t. 255. 2. 

 Rail, 181. 11. Buf. vii. 72. Pl.enl.597. 

 Picus griseus, Vieill. Am. ii. 62. pi. 116. Var. 

 Jamaica Woodpecker, Edw. pi. 244. 



Red-bellied Woodpecker, Cates. Car. i. 1. 19. .2. Bartr. 287. .4mer. Orn.i. pi. 7. f.2. 

 Carolina Woodpecker, Gen. Syn.n. 570. ^4rcf. Zoo/, ii. 161. 



LENGTH ten inches ; breadth seventeen. Bill one inch and a 

 half long, black ; forehead buff ; top of the head, and all behind 

 crimson ; sides and beneath pale ash-colour, inclining to olive brown 

 on the breast ; on each jaw a slight tinge of crimson ; the same on 

 the breast, growing deeper from the middle of the belly to between 

 the legs; plumage above, back, and wings black, banded with white; 

 from 16 to 20 bands in all on the back, broader than in the Jamaica 

 Species ; wings much the same ; second quills black, with four or 

 five white spots on the outer webs ; greater quills black, all but the 

 the two first tipped with white, or fringed ; the first quill shortest ; 

 rump, and upper tail coverts white, transversely marked with black, 

 and the latter reaching half way on the tail ; the outer feather 

 indented black and white on the outer web, the same on the inner, 

 just at the tip : the second black, with the outer fringe and tip white; 

 third only white at the tip ; the four middle ones wholly black, and 

 all bifid at the ends ; the wings reach half way on the tail ; legs 

 black. 



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