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bars of a paler colour : the fhafts of the quills and tail are yel-
lowifh: the laft is two inches long, black above, and olive yellow
beneath, with the ends forked, like the two laft defcribed :
legs black.
In the collection of .67V Jgfepb Banks, from the Cafe of Good
Hope.
' ** W t t h T H R E E T O E S.
■ Picus txida&ylus, tin . Syjt. i. p. 177. N° z i.— Scop. am. i. p. 49. N° 56.
— Phil. 1 ’rar.J. voi. lxii. p. 388.
Three-toed Woodpecker, Ednu. vol. iii. pi. x i^ — Amer. Zool. N°
Hr. Muf. Leu. Muf.
T ENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill near an inch long;
the upper mandible dulky, the under whites tips of both
•dulky, and broader at the-bafe than in any of the tribe: the
crown of the head of a golden yellow : fides of the head, before
and beneath the eye, dotted with black and white : from the eye,
on each fide, is a ftreak of white : down the middle of the back
whiter upper parts of the body and wings black : on the wing
coverts a few white fpots: quills fpotted with white: chin,
throat, and breaft, white : belly tranfverfely ftriated black and
white: the tail confifts of ten * feathers j the two middle ones are
black, fpotted on the inner webs with white; the others are
black alfo, more or lefs marked with orange buff at the ends, except
the outmoft, which is white, and the outer web buff-colour
the whole length : the legs have three toes only, two before and
one behind.
• Pallas fays, that there are twelve— it is a new obfervation. In the fpeci-
jiiens which I have feen there were only ten. See Spic. N° 6. p. 1I. note c.T
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W O Q D P
The female is the fame in all things, except the crown of
the head, which is black, marked with perpendicular lines of
white.
The above bird came from Karntfchatka ; but this fpecies is
alfo found in many of the northern parts of Europe ; in Switzerland,
on the high mountains of Lapland and Lalecarlia *, as well
as in Siberia f, Auftria J, and elfewhere.
Forfter 1 fays, that they are met with about Severn river, in
North America, but are not very common there ; and that they
live in woods, and feed on worms picked out of trees. He ob-
ferves that the irides are blue.
Le Pic varié de Cayenne, Brif. am. iv. p. 54. N° 20.
L ’Epeiche, ou Pic varié onde, Buf. aif. vii. p. 78.
Pic tacheté de Cayenne, PI. enl. 553 ?
Woodpecker with three toes, Bancr. Quim. p. 164.
C IZ E of the other. Bill the fame, but alh-colour : crown red :
the reft of the head and upper parts are black : on the back
and rump fome tranfverfe ftripes of white : under the eye a ftreak
o f white : under parts white ; but the fides, thighs, and under
wing coverts, are ftriated black and white : quills black, fpotted
with white : four of the middle tail feathers black ; the next the
fame, but is rufous white on the outer edge, about the middle,
on the inner web marked with two rufous white fpots ; the two
outer ones black at the bafe, and white the reft of their length,
fpotted with black on the inner webs and tips:.leg3 cinereous:
claws brown.
* Faun. Sues. p. 36. N° 103.
J Scop. ann. i. p. 49.
f B u f oif. vii. p. 79.
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