158 DOWNY WOODPECKER. 



latter marked with a streak of black, proceeding from the lower 

 mandible, exactly as in the Hairy Woodpecker ; legs and feet bluish 

 green ; claws light blue, tipt with black ; tongue formed like that of 

 the preceding species, horny towards the tip, where for one eighth 

 of an inch it is barbed ; bill of a bluish horn color, grooved, and 

 wedge-formed, like most of the genus ; eye dark hazel. The fe- 

 male wants the red on the hind head, having that part white; and 

 the breast and belly are of a dirty white. 



This and the two former species are generally denominated 

 Sap-suckers ; they have also several other provincial appellations, 

 equally absurd, which it may, perhaps, be more proper to suppress 

 than to sanction by repeating. 



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