JAMAICA WOODPECKER 
This bird seems considered, by naturalists in 
'general, as the Piciis Carolinus of Linnaeus;, 
the Pious Varlus Jamaicensis, of Brisson; the 
Picus Varius Medius, of Sir Hans Sloane , 
the Picus Varius Medius Jamaicens-is, of Pay; 
the Carolina Woodpecker, of Pennant and 
Latham; the Red- Bellied Woodpecker, of 
Catesby; the Variegated Jamaica Wood- 
pecker, of BufFon ; and the Jamaica Wood- 
pecker, of Edwards. 
BufFon says, that " tliis Woodpecker is ol 
a middle size, between the Green Wood- 
pecker and th-e Spotted Woodpecker of Eu- 
rope. Catesby," he remarks, *' makes it too 
small, when he compares it to the Spotted 
Woodpecker; and Edwards represents it too 
large, in asserting it to be equal in bulk to the 
Green Woodpecker. I1ie same author," adds 
BufFon, *' reckons only eight quills in tlic tail: 
but, probably, tlic two others were wimiin!;- 
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