Harlequin Duck. 
Hi^^MATOPUS (Linn.;eus.) — * Oyster-catcher ; a genus thus 
characterised. Bill long-, strong, straight, compressed; point much 
compressed, formed like a chisel ; nostrils at the sides of the hill slit 
lengthwise in the groove ; legs strong and muscular ; three toes 
' directed forwards, the middle one re-united to the outer, as far as the 
first joint by a membrane, and on the inside, by a small rudiment 5 
toes bordered with the rudiments of a membrane ; wings of a middle 
size, the first quill the longest.* 
HAGISTER. — A name for the Magpie. 
HAGGARD FALCON. — A name for the Peregrine Falcon. 
HAIRY WOODPECKER (Picus villosus, Linn^us.) 
*Picus villosus, Linn. Syst. l.p. 175.16. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 435. — Ind. Orn. 1. p. 
232.19. — Pic chevelie de Virginie, Buff. 1. p. 74. — Pic varie de Virginie, pi, 
Enl. 754. — Hairy Woodpecker, i\rct. Zool. 2. No. 164. — Lath. Syn. 2. p. 572. 
18. — lb. Supp. p. 108 — Cateshy, 1. p. 19. fig. 2. — Peele’s Museum, No. 1988, 
Flem. Hr. Anim. p. 92 TPi/sow’s Amer. Orn. 1. p. 150. — Ufont. Diet. — Levoins 
Br. Birds, 2. p. 48. — Wale. Syn. 1. t. 47. 
This species is nearly nine inches in length, and weighs about two 
ounces ; the plumage is black above, with a white stripe of hair-like 
feathers down the middle of the back ; the nape having a red band and 
two white stripes on each side of the head; one over the eye, the 
other along the lower jaw, from the bill, which is an inch and a quarter 
long, of a horn colour, and grooved, wedged at the end ; across the 
hind part of the head is a red band ; the wings are spotted with white ; 
under parts of the body wholly white ; four middle feathers of the tail 
are black ; the next marked obliquely on each side with white at the 
tip, the last but one white, with the base black; outer one wholly white ; 
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