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with dirty white ; chin the same, but paler; lesser wing coverts like 

 the back; the greater plain black; prime epulis dusky black, fringed 

 outwardly with cream-colour ; and the tips of several whitish ; 

 secondaries white, except at the ends, which have irregular bars of 

 black on each feather ; but on some of the inner ones the second bar 

 is wanting on the outer webs; rump, belly, upper and under tail 

 coverts white ; legs black. 



One of these, in the collection of Gen. Davies, was received from 

 Long-Island, and supposed to be a female, but of what species is 

 uncertain. M. Vieillot esteems it a young bird of the Red-headed 

 species, which I think not improbable, as in a specimen in Lord 

 Stanley's collection is one answering to the description, in which 

 may be plainly seen a mixture of pale crimson feathers, breaking 

 out, and intermixed with the brown in various parts of the head. 



69— RED-BREASTED WOODPECKER. 



Picus ruber, Ind.Orn.i. Gm.Lin.\. t. 29. Gen. Zool. ix. 160. 

 Le Charpentier a ventre rouge, Voy. d'Azara. iv. p. 255. 

 Red-breasted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 562. Id. Sup. 106. 



SOMEWHAT less than the last ; length eight inches and a half. 

 Bill one inch long, brownish horn-colour ; eyelids naked, yellow ; 

 head, neck, and breast crimson ; from each nostril a line of buff, 

 passing under the eye, where it finishes ; the back part of the neck 

 mixed with dusky ; back and wings black ; several of the lesser 

 coverts, near the outside of the wing, tipped with white, and others 

 of the greater ones with the outer webs white, making a streak of this 

 colour, parallel to, and near the edge of the wing ; most of the sca- 

 pulars marked with an obscure yellowish spot at the tip ; the first 

 quill feather is black, marked on the inner web, half-way from the 

 base, with round spots of white; the secondaries spotted on the inner 



