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Some specimens are of the dirty white above mentioned, and 

 others of a light yellow. 



77— FERRUGINOUS WOODPECKER. 



Picus cinnarnomeus, hid. Orn.'i. 240. Gm. Lin. i. 428. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 59. pi. 111. 



Gen. Zool. ix. 209. pi. 35. xxxxxx 

 Pic mordore, Buf. vii. 34. 

 Pic jaune tachete de Cayenne, PL enl. 524. 

 Ferruginous Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 592. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 159. 



SIZE of the Green Species ; length eleven inches. Bill black ; 

 head crested ; the crest of a dark yellowish cream-colour ; upper parts 

 of the body reddish cinnamon-colour, marked sparingly with yel- 

 lowish white spots ; on each side of the throat a large spot of crimson ; 

 the lower part of the back yellowish ash-colour ; tail and legs black. 



The female wants the red on the under jaw. One of this sex was 

 in the Leverian Museum, having a pale bill, with a black base ; 

 crest buff-colour; rump, lower belly, sides, and thighs dirty yellow; 

 vent pale rust-colour ; inside of the quills marked with both dark 

 and pale spots ; quills and tail dusky ; the rest of the plumage as 

 in the male. 



Inhabits Cayenne, Guiana, and other parts of America. Buffon 

 calls his colour on the upper parts a bright, brilliant, gilded, red,* 

 and the crest and rump yellow. The bird from which the description 

 of the male is taken, in the collection of General Davies. 



78.— BLACK-BREASTED WOODPECKER. 



Picus multicolor, Ind. Orn. i. 240. Gm. Lin. i. 429. Gen. Zool. ix. 205. 

 Pic a cravate noire, Buf. vii. 35. PI. enl. 863. 

 Black-breasted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 593. 



SIZE of the last. Bill pale; head, throat, and neck behind 

 orange yellow; the lower part of the last, fore part of the neck, and 



* Un beau rouge vif, brillant, et dore. This is no doubt his mordore colour; but in all 

 the specimens which I have seen, it has been more of a rust-colour, or cinnamon. 



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