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C H A p7 The wood-pecker is about the flze of a thrufli, and of an 

 ^^^g^i^t cinnamon-colour, fpeckled with dark brown and 

 yellow ; near the rump it is entirely yellow ; the head is 

 crefted with a fine crown of fmall feathers, of the fame 

 colour as the body : the tail is long and black ; the 

 bill is ftraight, and of a fea-green colour, as are the legs 

 and iris of the eyes, under which on each fide are two' 

 fpots of beautiful crimfon. 



The anonymous bird, which, however, the negroes 

 called zvoodo - loufo -fozv/o, from its feeding oh wood« 

 lice, is larger than the former, and uncommonly bril- 

 liant in its plumage ; the head and upper part of its 

 body being of a rich grafs green ; the breaft and belly 

 crimfon, divided by an afh- coloured bar. The tail is 

 long, and of a dark blue, as are the prime feathers 

 in the wings, which are alfo divided from the green by 

 another afli-coloured bar ; the bill is yellow and hooked, 

 being furrounded by a number of fmall black feathers^ 

 as are the eyes, the iris of which is of a blood colour. 

 (Both thefe birds may be feen in the annexed plate,) — As 

 I have already obferved, however rich and beautiful the 

 plumage may be which decorates the groves of Surinam, 

 the melodious fong there is but feldom heard. They had 

 alfo here the tame galinas^ or Guinea-hens, called tokay^ 

 which being fo well known in England, require no par- 

 ticular defcription. 



Among the plants which I faw here was the Ame^ 

 rican alocy above half a foot in thicknefs, and twenty feet 

 high ; it is an ever-green, pithy within and without, co- 

 vered 



