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part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, are white: from?
the eye arifes a dripe of white, which paffes on each fide of the
neck, quite down to the back : three or four of the prime quills,
are black ; but the red are white: the tail is cuneiform, the fame
colour as the body: the legs and claws alfo are black.
This bird inhabits Carolina, Virginia, New Spain, and Brajil,
and is called by the Spaniards Carpenter; and not without reafon,
as this, as well as mod of the other lpecies, makes a great noife
with the bill againd the trees in the woods, where they may be
heard at a great didance, as i f Carpenters were at workmaking*
according ts Catejby, in an hour or two a bulhel of chips. He
adds likewife, that the Canadian Indians make ufe of the bills of
thefe birds for coronets, fetting them round in a wreath, with
the points outwards; and that the nort hernlndians purchafe them
of the fouthern, at the rate of two and three Buck-dtins per bill.
Kalm faysi they are found in New Jerfey, though very feldom,
and only at certain feafons.
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PILEATED
W.
Picus pileatus, Lin-Syft, i. p. 173. 3'.
Le Pic noir hupe de Virginie, Brif, orn. iv. p* zg, N° io*
Le Pic noir a huppe rouge, Buf. oij,\ vii. p. 48.
Pic noir hupe de le Louifiane, PL enl 718.
Larger red-crefted Woodpecker, Catejb, Car A. pi. 17.
Pileated Woodpecker, Apt. Zool. N°
Bevt Mufn.
D*SeRI»T*ON.- ^ jpH IS is lefs than the laH: length fifteen, inches:- weight nine
ounces. The bill is two inches long, and of a lead-colour f|
as are the eyelids : the irides are the colour of gold : the top of
the head adorned with a creft of long red feathers; beneath this,
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■ Over the eye, is a ftreak of white ; and again under this is a
broader black ftreak, in which the eyes are placed ; all of which
marks tend to the hind head; on each fide of the jaw is a
itripe o f red, which reaches the whole length of the lower mandible,
and a little way down the neck: the cheeks, throat, fore
part and lides of the heck, are of a pale yellow, or buff colour:
in the middle of this colour is placed a band of black, which ,
arifes at the corners of the' mouth, and paffes down the lides of
the neck: the hind part of the neck, back, and rump, are black:
■ on the middle of the back is a fpot of white; and another or two
of the fame, on the wings: the bread:, belly, Tides, thighs, and
under tail coverts, are biackifli: the tail itfelf unequal ; the two
middle feathers the longed: legs and claws black.
Th & female differs in having no red on the lower jaw, and the Female-.
fore part of the head brown * ; but has a red crelt, as well as the
male.
This bird is common in Louifiana, Carolina, and Virginia; and, pLSCES an-»
■ according-to Kalmf, is frequent alfo in forefts in Penfylvania, Manner».
where it days the . winter. It is reckoned very hurtful to the
Maize,, as -it fettles on the ripe ears, and dedrays them with its
■ bill J ; not that it is known for certain, that thefe birds eat any
• Baffin mentions a black Woodpecker met with by M. Cimmtrfon, in the
Straits of Magellan, of the fize of the common ohe, and otherwife'like it, except
having only the fore part of the head red, the hinder part crefted, but black.-
f Vey. i. p. 148.
t Kalm adds, “ That all the tribe, of Woodpeckers ate tici:rucilve to Maize,
when it begins to ripen ; for, by pecking holes in the membrane round the ear,
t he rain gets into it, and caufes the ear, with all the corn it contains, to rot.”
•Kalm. Trav. i. p. 148,
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