BED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 
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the vent white, spotted with black; the hairs that cover the nos- 
trils are of a pale cream colour; the bill deep slate; but what 
forms the most distinguishing peculiarity of this bird, is a fine 
line of vermilion, on each side of the head, seldom occupying 
more than the edge of a single feather. The female is destitute 
of this ornament; but in the rest of her plumage differs in no- 
thing from the male. The iris of the eye, in both, was hazel. 
The stomachs of all those I opened were filled with small 
black insects, and fragments of large beetles. The posterior ex- 
tremities of the tongue reached nearly to the base of the upper 
mandible. 
