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Db&cri>tion.
part of the grain ; being more likely in fearch after fome kind:
of infedt that frequents the plant, rather than any part of the
plant itfelf, as none of this genus are granivorous *. I am told,
that this fpecies is frequently met with in the Fine foreftc, and
known, by fome, by the name of Woodcock.
Picus Hneatus, Liru Sjfl. ü p. 174, N.°4..
Le Pic noirhupe de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 31. N° u .p l. 1. f. 2,
L ’ Ouantou, on Pic noir huppe de Cayenne, Btif.oif. yii. p. rp.
------------- -> Pie noir hupe de Cayenne, PI. ml. 717.
Pic noir, on Charpentier, Firm. Difir. do Surin. ii. p. ,70 f
Picus varius Brafilienfis Ipuu didus, Rail Syn. p. 43. N° 7.
Brafilian Woodpecker, called Ipicu, Will. orn. 138. pi. 22.
Lev, Mu/,
/ jf VHE fize of this is equal to- our green Woodpecker : length
thirteen inches and three quarters. Bill above an inch
and a half long, and o f an hern-colour: head and nape o f a
beautiful red, the feathers long enough to form a creft : along the
under jaw a ftripe of the fame : upper parrs of the body black':
cheeks the fame, but inclining to afh:. from the corner of the
mouth, on each fide,, is a line of white ; which, growing broader
as it advances downwards, meets on the middle of the back: beneath
the throat is rufous white, the lhaft of each feather dafhed
with black : fore part of the neck and breaft black ; each feather
margined, with rufous white at the tip':, belly, vent,, and thighs,
rufous white, ftriated tranfverfely with black : the edges of the
wings, and beneath them, white,: quills black; the inner webs,,
for one-third of their length from the bafe, white: tail cuneiform,
black : legs and claws grey.
* Hiß, du oifi vol, vii, p, 4q.
Inhabits
Inhabits Cayenne. I have ventured to place the Ipecu, as
fynonvmous with the above-defcribed, rather than with the laft
but one, as Linnaus and Briffon have both done, for many reafons :
the Ipecu is faid to be as big only as the. green Woodpecker, while
the other is of the fize of a Crow: fecondly, the former has a horn-
coloured bill,, while that of the latter is as white as ivory, and
twice as long: and thirdly, the under parts of the body, in this
bird, are variegated; whereas in the white-billed they are plain.
Buffon thinks, that this may prove the Flauhquechultototlof
Fernandez * ; and it may alfo be the bird meant by M. Fermin
above quoted, though this circumftance can only be guefled at, as-
he merely fays, that it is black, with the top of the head cinnabar ;
as to the name Charpentier (or Carpenter) it is by no means cha-
ra&erifiiic; it Being a common name given to the Woodpecker
tribe in general, by the inhabitants of South Wmerica. There is.
alfo another Hack Wwdpecker, copied from Seba f , by Brijfon t ,
which is wholly of that colour, crofied with zigzag lines of light
grey; on the wings and under parts. Buffon would have this re-
jedted, not being certain of the genus, as well as two others H*
as^ Seba talks of their feeding on fijh, and calls them Herons ■, but
what they really are will perhaps never be determined.
*' See Raii Syn. p. 162;
T Ardeæ Mexicanæ fpecies fingiilari;, S tl. vol. i. t. 6ç. f, 2.
t Le Pic noirda Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 25. N° 8.
Il See Pic verd du Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p, 16. N° 3, and Grand Pic varié:
du. Mexique, p. 57. N° zo.
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