CAYENNE SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
into Barbets and Tamatias, though we do not 
perceive it's exa6t similitude among any of 
those which he has particularly, described. 
Naturalists," he observes, " have applied 
the epithet Bearded, to several birds which 
have the base of their bills beset with detached 
feathers, long and stiff like bristles, all of them 
dire6l forward. But we must observe that, 
under this designation, some birds of diffe- 
rent species, and from very distant climates, 
have been confounded." To these birds, when 
natives of America, Buffon gives the name of 
Tamatia ; and appropriates that of Barbet 
solely to those of the old world. Both,'* 
he says, " fly wdth great difficulty, on account 
of the thickness and unwieldlness of their body. 
Though different, they resemble each other in 
many chara6lers : for, besides the long slender 
bristles that cover the bill, either wholly or 
partially, so as to form the beard ; and the 
position of the feet, two toes before and two 
behind, which is the same in both ; they hive 
equally a squat body, a very large liead, and a 
bill not only exceedingly thick, but somewhat 
curved below, convex above, and compressed 
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