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nape black and white mixed ; general colour of the upper parts of 

 the bird black, waved with white on the back, and inner second 

 quills, from the margins of the feathers being white ; above each 

 eye, beginning behind it, is a white streak; and beneath the eye 

 another, arising from the nostrils ; all the under parts, from chin to 

 vent, white, varied a little with black on the sides ; quills black and 

 white alternate, or chequer-wise ; the four middle tail feathers are 

 black, the others white, marked with four or five spots of black ; 

 the points of the feathers incline to reddish ; toes placed two before 

 and two behind. 



Such is the bird described by BufFon in his work, aided by the 

 figure in the PI. enlum. and although this author gives in to 

 the idea of its being the same bird with the Three-toed, we can by no 

 means reconcile ourselves thereto, for the following reasons — In all 

 the Three-toed there is but one streak of white on each side of the 

 head, whereas in the Waved Woodpecker there are two ; the spots 

 on the back of this latter are different from the former, as well as the 

 quills ; the tail, too, is not marked the same. In the Northern Three- 

 toed, the three outer feathers are not spotted, but divided black and 

 white ; and in the Southern Three-toed very little spotted ; but in both 

 cases differing much from the one here described, which is said to 

 inhabit Cayenne. The number of toes might also be added as a 

 further objection, if the figure in the PI, enlum. should by any 

 means be faulty in that particular. 



65 —BLACK AND WHITE WOODPECKER. 



Le Charpentier blanc et noir, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 254. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half; extent sixteen. Bill brown; 

 hides white ; upper part of the neck and half the back and wings 



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