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with black and white : the long feathers of the wings are black on the upper part,; 
but with three or elfe five feries of very minute fpots of white j on the under fide 
they are grey, and there are feven or eight rows of larger white fpots: the feathers 
which cover the wings on the upper fide are black; the tail is fiiort, but firm and 
rigid : the long feathers are all of them black, but the two outer ones have fome fpots 
of white on them : the top of the head is of a fine flrong faffron colour. 
The legs are fhort, and of a deep bluifh-black colour : the feet are alfo blaifh and 
the toes are only three, in which it differs from all the other birds of this genus: two 
of thefe hand forward, and one behind; of the two anterior ones the inner is the 
fmaller and fhorter; the hinder toe is larger than the longefi; of the others, 
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This is a native of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and fome parts of Germany ■ it 
frequents the forefis, and efpecially the mountainous ones. It has not been known to 
any of the ornithologifis. We meet with it firfi: defcribed in the Stockholm Ads 
under the name of Picus pedibus tridadylis, a name it retains every-where fince, 
Pkus vertice coccineo crijiato. JBtSftll'ltft JK&lOtJs 
The Pkus, with a fcarlet-crefled head. ptCftet. 0? ^ptCU* 
This is a very fingular and a Very beautiful bird ; It is the largeft of all the wood¬ 
pecker-kind j it is equal to a common pigeon in fize. The head is moderately large and 
flatted ; the whole crown or depreffed part is of an elegant fcarlet 3 there is alfo a 
creft of long and very beautiful feathers, of the fame colour, which has it’s origin 
from the hinder part, and hangs down on the back : the eyes are frnall, but very bright 
and piercing ; the iris is of a deep faffron colour, and the pupil of a bluifh-black, with a 
fhade of a changeable green alfo calf over it: the beak is about three quarters of an inch 
long, and of a bluifh-grey colour ; it is of an angulated form, and obtufe at the point, 
and is there of a darker colour than any where elfe : the membrane which invefts the 
beak is of a deep bluifh-grey, and in this fland the noftrils, which are round and, 
frnall. 
The neck is black, but there runs down on each fide of it a longitudinal ffreak of 
white : the beak is of an extreamly dark iron grey : the rump is quite of a deep black 5 
the wings and tail are alfo of a deep black on the upper fide, but white underneath ; 
and the breaff, belly, and feathers which cover the thighs are of a pale grey, or a 
black, fpotted with fo numerous and frnall fpots of white, that the whole appears grey 
and uniform. 6 J 
The legs are fhort, and they are covered down to the joint with pale grey feathers - 
the naked or lower part of them is blue, and the toes alfo are blue, and are placed* 
two before and two behind: the claws are fhort and obtufe ; the tail ’is fhbrt, but the 
feathers which compofe it are rigid, and the middle ones, which are a little longer 
than the reft, are turned down at the points, fo that they affifi: the bird in keeping it’s 
place on the trunks of trees. ^ 6 
This is a native of the Brafils, and is frequent alfo in the inland parts of Sou^h 
America j we fometimes have it fent over to us dried. Marcgrave, Pifo and the 
other writers who have mentioned the Brafilian and South American animals’ have all 
given it the name Ipecu, by which it is known to the natives j and Ray Willughby 
• c? d th , e , r A haVe followed them - There is a very perfeft fpecimen’in Sir Hans 
oloane s Mufieum, - 
