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The lejfer Mack Woodpecker. 



Numb. XXIII. 



TS length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the 

 Tail is fix Inches 5 the Breadth, when the Wings were ex- 

 panded, eleven Inches and a half 3 the Bill was an Inch and 

 a half long, of a brown Colour; the Tongue long, as in 

 other Woodpeckers; the Irides of the Eyes whitifh, the 

 fore part of the top of the Head was black, the hind part 

 red; the reft of the Bird was black, excepting the Edge of 

 the fcapular part of the Wing, and under the Vent, where 

 it had fome white Feathers ; the Legs and Feet were yellow- 

 ifti, the Claws black; the Tongue long and ftiff, as in 

 oi^^x Woodpeckers: This Bird I had from a Gentleman very 

 curious in Birds, ^c. he told me it came from New Eng- 

 land. 



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