not fpotted on the edges. She allb wants the black lift on
the throat, but otherwife like the male.
Inhabits Virginia, Carolina, arid Canada, and is plenty in New
Jerfey, and about New Tork, where it is called by fome Hillock,
or Pint, and by others High-bole. Both the firft names have fome
relation to its note; and perhaps the latter, from the lituation of
:the neft. It is almoft continually on the ground, and is not ob-
ferved to climb on the trees, like others of the genus. It lives
-chiefly on infefts *, and is commonly very fat, fo as to be
•thought very palatable for the table. It ftays all the year; and,
as it cannot at all times get infefts, it muft, perhaps, eat fome
kind of grafs or plants in the fields. Its form, and fome of its
•qualities, make it-referable the Cuckow f . It feldom climbs up
•the trees, but only fits occafionally on the branches.
Forfter, in the Philofophical Iranfalfions above quoted, obferves,
•that it is a bird of paffage in the northern parts of America, vifiting
the neighbourhood of Albany Fort in April, and leaving it in September
-, that it lays from four to fix eggs, in hollow trees, and
feeds on worms, and other injelds. Called by the natives -Ou-
tbee-quan now.
* In defeft of ix/eds, I have been informed, that it feeds on the terries of the
red cedar, and grows fat on them. This food has been both dijgorged by the
mouth, after being fhot, as well as found in the ftomach on diffeftion.
t linnreus, in his tenth edition of the Syji. Net. had ranked this with the
Cockvws j and Buffov, from its fimilarity to this genus, has .placed it at the end
of the Woodpeckers of its clafs.
Lev,
J HAVE lately feen, in the Mufeam above referred' to, a bird
which appears to be a mere variety, though brought from a
far different country. This was much like the laft deferibed in
colour, but rather lefs in fize. The bill exaftdy made like that
bird, and brown r on each fide of the jaw is a ftripe of crimfon,
like a whifker : the under part of the wings of a pale red colour,
not unlike what is called red lead: and the Ihafts of the quills
and tail, which in the other bird are yellow, in this are red : the
plumage on the upper parts of the body is brown; beneath vi-
naceous,. marked with round black fpots.: tail black, pointed, and'
each feather bifurcated at the tip, exaftly like the American one.
This was brought from thaCape e f Good Hope. I have feen
two fpecimens of this bird.
T EN G TH ten inches and a Half. Bill two inches long, bent*
like that of the gold-winged Woodpecker, rounded like it, and-
pointed at the tip ; the length of it two inches-, and black,: the
upper parts of the head, neck, and body, are dofky olive brown,
faintly dotted with paler brown I rump very pale crimfon, marked-
with fpots of a paler colour, in the fame manner as the reft of the
upper furface: quills dark brown, marked on each fide of the
web with oblique pale cream-coloured bars: throat and fore pare
of the neck dufky brown, marked with faint fpots of a paler colour
: lower part of the neck and the breaft pale crimfon, not unlike
the breaft of a L in n e tv en t dufky brown, marked with faint.
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