GOLD-WINGED WOODPECKER. 
147 
Of 
young Indian corn, and the wholesome and nourishing 
of the wild cherry, sour gum, and red cedar ? 
^ ' the reader turn to any living representative of the 
and say whctlier his looks be “ sad and melau- 
■" truly ridiculous and iustonishiug that 
tbi * “hsurdities should escape the lips or pen of one so 
to do justice to the respective merits of every 
>l^®oies; hut Buffou had too often a favourite theory to 
tb**' ’*P> that led him insensibly astray; and so, forsooth, 
" ^*®te fixmily of woodpeckers must look sad, sour, 
|ii ? be miserable, to satisfy the caprice of a whimsical 
5.jh*>*opher, who takes it into his head that they are, 
fought to he so 1 
'It the Count is not the only EurojUian who has 
Ii ^''epresented and traduced this beautitul bird. One 
him browu legs;* another a yellow neck;f 
tft“"’d has de(dared him a cuckoo ; | and, in an English 
lV|‘'-''hition of Linnseu-s’s System of Nature, lately pub- 
characterized as follows: “ Body, striated 
tlilll ^hick and gray ; cheeks, red ; (diiu, black ; never 
ilfii 
"tid 
........ 
bijj, de; never n alks on foot, &c. The piiges of natural 
should resemble a faithful mirror, in which 
Ofjlj. '"d may recognize the true iniiiges of the living 
tb|,^*"tls; instead of which, we liud this department of 
on trees ;”ji which is just as correct as if, i 
iHo®*'‘hiug the human species, we should say — ski 
in 
skin 
with black and green; cheeks, blue; chin. 
*** too often like the hazy and rough medium of 
b(;J ®hed windoM'-gla-ss, through whose crooked iirotu- 
every thing appears so strangely distorted, 
Itiil scarcely knows tlieir most intimate neighbours 
■j,.'‘'"luaiutauces. 
"1)0^ gold-winged woodpecker has the back and wings 
(lijjJ® of a dark umber, transversely marked with eijui- 
Ton 
streaks of black ; upper part of the head, an 
ff^ay ; cheeks and parts surrouudiiig the eyes, a 
Hrit. Art. Picus. f Latham. 
**• griseo iiigromic transversim striatus” 
*0 non scandit.’’— Lad. Oru. vol. I, p. 242. 
j Klein. 
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