RED-CHEEKED WOODPECKER. 
With the excellent fieure of this fnie bird 
drawn by Edwards, we have adopted the name 
under which it vms originally figured and de- 
scribed by that admirable ornithologist. In 
the Linn^an List of Edwards's Birds, it is stiled 
Picus Undatus ; but we do not find it exa6lly 
described by any other naturalist. 
The account which Edwards published with 
his figure, is as follows — 
This bird," says he, " is a "^^Vo^-clpecker, 
properly so ' called ; having the lail-fe-.ithcrs* 
stiff, and worn at their ends. The biil h ot 
a brov/nish colour not cliizel-noiiitcdj as in 
some of this species, but sharp. From the 
angles of the mouth passes beneath the eyes, 
on each side the head, a plat of fine red fea- 
thers, which cover the cheeks or sides of the. 
head ; from which marks I have denominated 
the species. Except the red spot mentioned, 
the Vv'hole bird is of a Lion-colour, or oranp-e 
inclining to olive-colour; with transverse bro- 
ken bars, of a black or dnsky colour, crossing 
