DOWNY WOODPECKER. 
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barbed; bill of a bluish horn colour, grooved, and wedge-formed, 
like most of the genus; eye dark hazel. The female wants the 
red on the hind-head, having that part white; and the breast 
and belly are of a dirty white. 
This, and the two former species, are generally denominated 
Sap-suckers; they have also several other provincial appella- 
tions, equally absurd, which it may, perhaps, he more proper 
to suppress, than to sanction by repeating. 
