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in the subjedl which he describes ; for all the 
Woodpeckers have ten quills in the tail." 
V/ho would imagine, after seeing the above 
refledlion on Edwards, that there is not, in 
fadi", throughout his whole description, a sin- 
gle syllable of comparison with the Green 
Woodpecker, in any respe6l whatever ? Yet 
this is most literally true: nor h^s Edwards, 
in his account of the Jamaica- Woodpecker, 
even mentioned the name of the Green ^Vood- 
pecker. 
What he does say, we shall literallv give, as 
by far the best description of this bird with 
which we are acquainted. 
The wing, when closed, is five inches 
long : the bill, from it's point, to the corners 
of the mouth, is an inch and a half. In the 
wing I counted nineteen quills: in the tail, 
eight feathers; which seemed to me to be 
perfect, thougli ^Villughby says, that Wood- 
peckers have ten feathers in their tails." 
I'hus it appears, that Edwards was by no' 
means 
