CAYENNE &PdTTED WOODPECKER. 
feathers beneath the tail, are of a bright yellow 
colour ; those on the breast and belly are finely 
marked with oval black spots ; and the thighs, 
and coverts under the tail, are transversely 
mixed with black or dusky lines. The legs, 
feet, and claws, are black. The two forward 
toes of each foot are a little connected at their 
bottoms ; tho hinder toes are wholly detached 
from each other." 
This, Edwards observes, was one of those 
curious birds taken by the Right Honourable 
Earl Ferrers, in a French prize ; and he add^, 
that he believes it to have never before been, 
either figured or described. Le Barbu Tachete 
de Cayenne, however, figured and described 
by Brisson, in the fourth volume of his Orni- 
tliology, Edwards thinksj can be no other than 
the female of this Cayenne Yellow Woodpecker 
with Black Spots ; it differing only as female 
birds do from the male. 
In BufFon*s description of the Yellow Wood- 
pecker of Cayenne^ he says that he has re- 
ceived ten species of Woodpeckers from Gui- 
ana, and thiit the Yellow Woodpeckers seem 
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