CAYENNE YELLOW WOODPECKER 
WITH RLACK SPOTS. 
Though Edwards, whose excellent figure 
we have delineated, calli this bird the Yellow 
Woodpecker with Black Spots ; he observes, 
that it *' is not stritSi^ly and properly a Wood- 
pecker, having it's tail-feathers softer, and not 
worn at their ends, by which it seems not to 
be a climber up and down the bark on the bo- 
dies of trees, like the Woodpeckers. Brisson," 
lie adds, " calls this genus of birds by the 
name Barbu." 
Edwards, in his classical Catalogue, or 
hxlex, has arranged this bird among those 
Avliich are " of kin to Cuckows." In that 
list he has also placed the Jacamaciri of Marc- 
grave, which Buffon erroneously asserts that 
he had classed with the AVoodpeckers. 
Our Cayenne Yellow Woodpecker with 
Black Spots, is thus minutely described by 
Edwards — 
The 
