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Inhabits Canada. B-uffsn fuppofes it to be theQuauhtotopotli of
Fernandez *, above quoted .
That in PL enl. muft mean the female, as it has no otange on
die hind head nor. is. the front of a.dirty white.-
Pi'cus Carolînus, tin . Syjl'i i. p. 174. N°'io. '
Le Pic varié de la Jamaïque, Brif. cm. iv. p. 59. N° 23.
L ’ Epeiche, ou Pic varié de la Jamaïque, Buf.oif. vii. p. 72.
Pic varié femelle delà Jamaïque, PI. enl. 597.“
Carolina Woodpecker, Kàlm. trail, ii. p. 86.
Jamaica Woodpecker, Edaj. voL.v. p. 244.— Sloan. Jam. p. 299. N° Ip,
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Red-bellied Woodpecker,. Catejl. Car. i, pl. 19. f. 2.— Am. Zool. N?
atscRij-Tio».. ' I 'HIS is bigger than ourgreater fpotted Woodpecker : length
ten inches and- a-half. The bill is black, and an inch and
a-half in length : irides-hazel: the crown*of the head, and upper
part of the neck behind; are bright red: the cheeks yellowifli
white: the upper parts of thé body black, markedwith tranfverfé
narrow-whitifh lines : throat and fore part of the neck, as far as,
the breaft, dirty olive; becoming- red by degrees, as it approaches
the belly: the lower parts of the belly and thighs are
markedwith tranfverfe brown lines : the tail is black : the outmoft
feather dotted with white on the-outer edge: legs and claws
hlack.
• Fernandez fays, it is tamed and kept in houfes: of the fizr of a Starling : that
i t is black, fpotted with white : that it makes holes, in trees, and feeds in the
feme manner as other Woodpeckers; but does not mention that it has red on any
part of the bodv,.
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The / ‘ m a le differs in having that part of the head rufous white, F emale.
which is red in the male.
Inhabits Carolina and Jamaica. P lace
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J HAVE had feveral from the laft-mentioned place, which differed
a little; for the forehead was pale buff, in both fexes as DESCR’PTI<>,f'
well as the cheeks: the belly had a pale yellowifh-brown tinge,
but not at all inclined to red : the two middle tail feathers were’
tranfverfely barred with White on each fide; the next only on the
outer web, but both home to the fhaft; and the. outer feather
dotted with white, on the outer margin,.the whole length; but
on the inner one only near the end: the head, and other particulars,
anfwering to Briffon’s defeription.
Kalm obferves, that the colour of the head is deeper, and of
a more fhining red than Catejby has reprefented it.
. Shane fays, this bird is met with every where in the woods; andi
loves the Capjicum> or Indian peppery very much.
V Epeiche ou Pic rayé de la Louifiane, B u f oif y ii. p. 73. r„
~ * PI* enl% 692. female ? V ar. B.
A L IT T L E Jigger than the greater fpotted Woodpecker. Up- d & L wok.
per part of the head pale red : on the throat, and under the ’
eyes, fome markings of the fame: general colour of the p lum a i I
above black, tranfverfely ftriped with white ; beneath grevifli ?
white : the two middle tail feathers, and the two outer tail feathers,
black and white mixed ; the others pla black.
One of thefe, fuppofed to be the female, had a grey forehead, * „
and no red on the head, except at the back part.
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