PLATE CXLIII. 



PICUS TRIDACTYLUS, 



NORTHERN THREE TOED WOODPECKER. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill angular, ftraight, cuneated at the tip : nortrils covered with 

 recumbent fetaceous feathers : tongue round, worm-fhaped, very 

 long, and ofleous, miflile, daggered, and befet at the point with 

 briftles bent back : tail feathers ten in number, hard, rigid, and 

 pointed : feet climbers. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. , 

 Variegated with black and white : legs three toed. 



PiCUS TRJDACTYLUS: albo nigroque varius, pedibus tridaaylis, 

 Linn. Fn, Suec. No, IQS.^-^GmeL Syji. 1. p, ^S^^ 

 — BorQwJk. Nat. 2. p. 138. 8. 



Three-TOED Woodpecker. ArSf. ZooL 2, No. 168, 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. \.p. 2^d. n,5§. 



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