P.ED-CHEEKED WOODPECKER. 
BuiFon observes, 'that the Creoles of Cay- 
enne call these birds Yellow Carpenters ; that 
they seem peculiar to that country; that they 
form their iiests in large trees rotten at the 
core, after boring horizontally to the decayed 
part, descending, and continuing the excava- 
tion to the depth of a foot and a half ; that 
the Female lays three white and almost round 
eggs ; that the Male shares the Female's soli- 
citude, and during her absence places him-j. 
self in the entrance ; that his cry is a whistle 
composed of six notes, the nrst of which are 
monotonous, and tlie two or three last natter; 
and, that the Female has not the bright red bar 
which appears in the Male on each side of the 
head." 
Flad our Red-Cheeked Woodpecker been 
described, or represented, as having " a crest 
which reaches to its neck, of the same pale 
yellow colour as the head, and strongly con- 
trasting the red mustachocs," as BufFon cha- 
racterises his Cayenne Yellow Woodpecker, 
we should have been ready to pronounce it 
the same bird. 
