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the neck; of agreyilh black-: on each fide of the neck, two-thirds
downwards, is a ftripe of white, which begins juft above the eye,.;
and under this another of black from the eye to-the fhoulder-
upper part of the body black and white : under parts pale yellow,
fpotted with black: tail black above, beneath barred with a dirty
white and yellowilh colour : bill and legs blackifh. The head
had no red on it.
Buffon fuppofes it to have been a female, and a variety only of
cur leaft fpotted Woodpecker.
a
•VARIED
W.
,-Jie grand Pic varie da Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 57. N° 21 ?
Le petit ditto, Ditto p. 59. N°:22.
L ’Epeiche du Mexique, Buf.oif. vii. p. 70.
Quauhchochopitli, feu Avicula Ligna excavans, Fern. H. N. Hi/p. ch. 04.
11 """• ■ ■■ .... 1 ■■■ ■ , Rati Syn. p. 163.
D escription* ! VHIS is of the fize of tht middleJpotted Woodpecker : the whole
**■ body covered with black feathers, tranfverfely ftriated with
white : breaft and belly -red,: quills and tail black, tranfverfely
.ftriated with white.
iP lace anjd
R ema rh s .
Inhabits the colder parts of Mexico-. Buffon thinks this bird
and the greater one of Briffon, N° 21, to be the fame bird. Ray,
copying /Fernandez, fays, it is as big as a S/uail; if fo, it will
.not differ much in fize from the other, which Briffon fays is equal
to the green Woodpecker. But Klein would almoft perfuade us,
•that this laft is not a Woodpecker, when he talks of its darting
-down on JiJh into the water, which we know to be rather the
characteriftic o f the Kingfijher than any other'; and, i f l may be
■ allowed the fuppofition, it is not unlikely to fuppofe, that he means
9 the
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the Alcedo Alcyon, which acts in this manner. Inhabits Mexico,
as well as other parts of America -, and anfwers to his colour very
nearly *.
Le Pic varié de Canada, Sri/, on. iv. p. 45. N* 16. pi. 2. {. 2,
L ’Epeiche du Canada, première efpèce, Buf. ci/, vü. p. 69.
Pic du Canada, P l.en l. 345. 1.
Quauhtotopotli alter, Fernand. Hi/i. Nonn Hi/p. ch, 163. p.47 f
' ■■■ , Rati Syn. p. 162»
Spotted Woodpecker, Amer. Zool. N°
g I Z E o f the greater Woodpecker: length nine inches. Bill
fifteen lines long, and Of a horn-colour: upper parts of the
body black, with a mixture of white in the middle o f the back:
under parts whitifh : head black : forehead dirty white : on each
fide is a -broad white band, palling above the eyes, and joining a
pale orange one on the hind head ■ under the eye is another white
band, which widens as it proceeds downwards on the fides of the
neck: wing coverts !and quills fpotted with white: the two
middle tail feathers are black j the next has a dirty white fpot
near the tip-5 and the three outer ones have the ends marked obliquely
with white 5 the two outmoft ones being wholly white»
except at the bafe : legs grey brown.
'• The upper parts are dark alh : quills Ipótted white : belly white, With the
middle rufous in one teic; M I white Both before -and behind the eye befidés.
Klein names it Jaculator cintreuj. See Klein av. 127. N°z.
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CANADIAN
SPOTTED
W.
t)ESC*IPTIO».
Inhabits