WOODPECKER. 391 



62— ALBANY WOODPECKER. 



LENGTH six inches and a half, breadth twelve ; weight sixteen 

 pennyweights. Bill black ; irides dark coloured ; vibrissae white ; 

 crown and scapulars black ; hind head crimson ; sides of the head 

 and ears white, joining with a white patch on the side of the neck ; 

 middle of the back to the rump, the throat, breast, belly, and vent, 

 white ; wing and tail coverts black ; quills and secondaries black, 

 spotted with white ; the two middle tail feathers black ; the next the 

 same, with the edge and tip of the outer web white ; the two next 

 have the upper part of the outer web black, the rest white ; the end 

 of the inner web the same, with an oval black spot near the end ; on 

 the two next three spots of black on the inner webs, and a small 

 speck or two of the same near the end of the outer ; the two exterior 

 feathers have three transverse black spots on the inner, and two on 

 the outer webs ; legs black. 



This was shot at Albany Fort, Hudson's Bay, in November 1780, 

 and called there Paupastaow; it was feeding on the tops of the 

 Juniper Willow. — Communicated by the late Mr. Hutchins. 



63.- LITTLE WOODPECKER. 



Picus pubescens, Ind. Orn. i. 232. Lin. i. 175. Gm. Lin. i. 435. Vieill. Am. ii; 



p. 65. pi. 121. Gen. Zool. ix. 170. 

 Picus varius Virginianus minor, Bris. iv. 50. Id. 8vo. ii. 55. Klein. 27. 8. 

 Petit Pic varie de Virginie, Buf. vii. 76. 



Smallest Woodpecker, Cat. Car. i. t. 21. Kalm. Trav. ii. 87. 

 Downy Woodpecker, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 165. Laws. Car. 143. Amer. Orn. v. 1. 



pi. 9. f. 4. 

 Little Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 573. Id. Sup. 106. 



THIS is like the Hairy Species, but is much smaller : length 

 six inches ; breadth eleven ; weight near an ounce. Bill horn- 



