148 PICUS AUHATUS. 
fine cinnamon colour ; fi-om the lower mandible a stnj. 
of black, an inch in length, passes down each sio 
the throat, and a liinatcd spot, of a vivid Wood 
covers the bind head, its two points reaching | 
half an inch of each eye ; the sides of the neck, ^ 
this, incline to a bkiisli gray ; throat and chin, a ' 
light cinnamon or (awn colour ; the breast is ornanied 
vi'ith a broad crescent of deep black ; the belly and 
white, tinged with yellow, and scattered with imp ^ 
rablo round spots of black, every teather haviOr 
distinct central spot, those on the thighs and vent be -j 
heart-shaped and largest; the longer or inner side j 
the wing and tail, shafts of all the larger feathers, 'j, 
indeed of almost every feather, arc of a beautiful S,^(j | 
yellow'; that on the shafts. of the primaries being 
distinguishable, even when the wings^ are shut , .p 
rump is w’hite, and remarkably jirominent ; the * 
coverts white, and curiously serrated with black ; 
side of the tail, and the tip below, black, I 
lio-ht loose lilameiits of a cream colour, the two P^t? 
feathers, serrated with whitish ; shafts, black toh* A 
the tips, the two middle ones, nearly w'holly so ; 
an inch and a half long, of a dusky horn colour, s« 
what bent, ridged only on the top,' tapering, but nd* (, 
a point, that being a little wedge-formed ; legs 
light blue ; iris of the eye, hazel ; length, twelve 
extent, twenty. The female difi'ers from the 
chiefiy in the greater obscurity of the tine colours> 
in wanting the black mustaches on each side 0*^,1- 
throat. This description was talceii from a very b 
tiful and jierfect specimen. 
Though this species, generally speaking, is m’?'? 
yet they often remain with us in J’ennsylvama d ^ 
the whole winter. They also inhabit the contni* 
North America, from Hudson’s Bay to (Jeorgi» > 
have been found by voyagers on the north-west n, 1 
of America. They arrive at Hudson’s Bay I 
and leave it in September. Mr Hearne, * 1 ® |p| 0 s' 1 
informs us, that “ the gold-winged w oodpecker is * 
