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fj^ULu^^^^ ^he lejfer fpotted Woodpecker, Picus Varius Minor. 



/^^- Numb. XX. 



ITS Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is 5 Inches 

 and a half; Breadth when the Wings are extended 10 Inches and a 

 quarter ; Weight i ^ Drams and a half. This is for Shape and Colour 

 like the laft defcribed, but much lefs. 



The Tail confifted of ten Feathers, from the exterior to the middle- 

 moft gradually longer each than other, the two middlemoft being the 

 longeft ; of thefe the four middlemoft are wholly black, ftrong, fharp and 

 bending inward as in the reft of this Kind, fo made to fuftain the Body 

 when it climbs Trees ; the three exterior are lefs fharp, of which thc- 

 outmoft and leaft hath the Bottoms black, and their upper part white, 

 with two tranfverfe black Spots; in the next the black Part is extended 

 in the inner Web as far as the fecond tranfverfe black Spot ; in the outer the 

 white reacheth lower, yet hath it only one tranfverfe black Spot toward 

 the Top ; the third is black, having only the Tip white. 



The Throat, Breaft and Belly are of a fordid white, above the Noftrik 

 it is of a dusky Colour, and on the top of the Head it hath a broad Streak 

 of red, the hinder Part of the Head is black ; round the Eyes to the mid- 

 dle of the Neck on both Sides is a broad Bed of white Feathers terminated 

 with black, (only the Feathers that cover the Ears are of the fame Colour 

 of the Breaft.) The upper part of the Back, and the upper covert Feathers 

 of the Wings are black ; the prime Feathers and the reft of the covert 

 Feathers are elegantly fpotted with femicircular Spots of white ; the mid- 

 dle Part of the Back is white with crofs Lines of black: The Bill, 

 Tongue, Jr'tdes-, Feet and Toes are like thofe of the laft defcribed ; the 

 .Claws black and crooked ; the fame Number of prime Feathers in Wings 

 and Tail ; the Stomach difleded was full of Infeds. 



It wants the Appendices or blind Guts, like the reft of this Kind. The 

 Hen differs from the Cock, inftead of a read Streak on the Top of the 

 Head fhe has a white. 



Aldrovandus writes, that this Kind wants thofe red Spots on the Head 

 and Rump; which is true of the Female, but not of the Male, for his 

 Head is marked with a red Spot. 



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