CAYENNE SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
peculiar to that country. Most of these, he 
remarks, are scarcely known to nauurahsts, 
and Barrere has only noticed a few. The 
Creoles of Cayenne call them Yellow^ Car- 
penters. 
We do not recognise, however, among any 
jof those birds which BufFon has described, 
the Cayenne. Woodpecker w'ith Black Spots, 
as given by Edwards. 
Tliere are several of the Woodpeckers, and 
aorne other birds, which seem in many rcspedls 
to resemble the present objedl of our enquiiy; 
but we are unable to discover anv one, in par- 
ticular, which has been described by naturalists, 
that sufficienilv agrees with the figure and de- 
scription of Edwards, for us absolutely to assert, 
that it is, in favft, this very bird. We deno- 
minate it, however, after Edwards, the Yellow 
Woodpecker with Black Spots; though, with 
him, we are far from being satisfied that it is, 
positively, even of the \\ oodpecker tribe. 
It seems to us not unlikciv, that this bird 
may be a species of what Buffon has divided 
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