THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. 
We differ in opinion with BufFon, as to the 
number of observations necessary for answer- 
ing his question ; the simple remark of Ed- 
wards, that the back toe is stronger, and armed 
with a longer claw than the others, seems to 
us sufficient : nor can we agree with him, in 
his denial of the same bird's inhabiting the dif- 
ferent regions mentioned ; since so able an 
ornithologist as Latham, has denominated it 
the Southern Three-Toe'd Woodpecker, and it 
is notoriously an inhabitant of the North. 
