RED-CHEEKED WOODPECKER^ 
It is singular, however, considering his 
great customary precision, as to facts, that he 
should, on the plate, notwithstanding the doubt 
implied in his description, expressly statb thi& 
bird to be ** the Red-Cheeked Woodpecker 
from Surinam." 
Though we have remarked, that the Red- 
Cheeked Woodpecker does not appear to . us 
exaclly described by any other naturalist; we 
strongly incline to consider it as a variety only 
of the Picus Exalbidus of Gmelin's Linnasus ; 
the Picus Cayanensis Albus, of Brisson ; the 
Picus Flavlcus, of Latham ; and the Cayenne^ 
Yellow Woodpecker, of BufFon* 
*' Thete is," says BufFon, in his account of 
the Yellow Woodpecker of Cayenne, "some 
variety in this species: certain individuals hav< 
ing all tlie small coverts of the wings of a hue 
yellow, and the great ones edged with that' 
colour ; in others, such as that, probably, 
which Brisson described, the whole plumage- 
h discoloured and bleached, so as to appear 
only a dirty white or yellowish." 
BufR)ii 
