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Trhefe came from Lomfiana-, and appear, to be afecond, variety
o f the Carolina Woodpecker, of which mine-from ^«»MHM.feems to
be an intermediate one; but I obferve, tljat-the lines on. the-back
are not near fo numerous as in that bird.
Kcus villofus, tin , Syft, i. p. 175. N° 16.
Le Pic varie de Virginie, Brij. cm, iv. p, 48. Nr 17.
L ’Epeiche, on Pic chevelu de Virginie. Buf. oij. vii. p. 75.
Pic varie male de Virginie, PI. enl. 754.
Hairy Woodpecker, Catifi. Car. i. pi. 15. f. 2,— Amer. Zaol. N°
—--------- -, Kalm’s Trait. ii. p. 86.— Phil't Trait/, vol. Ixii. p. 3S8,
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Lev. Mu/.
T T is a trifle Tefs than our fpotted Woodpecker : weighs two-
ounces : and is in length eight inches and three quarters. The
bill is an inch and a quarter long, and o f a horn-colour: the
head is black; on each fide are two white lines, the one palling
above the eye, and the other along the lower jaw; both arifing
from the bale of the b ill: acrofs the hind head is a red band : the
upper parts of the body are black; which colour is as it were
divided by alift of white feathers, like hairs, palling down the back:
the wings are fpotted with white : the under parts of the; body
wholly white : the four middle tail feathers are black; the next
on each fide obliquely white at the tip; the laft but one white,,
with the bale black; and the outer one wholly white : the legs
and claws are grey-brown.
The female differs only in wanting the red on the hind head.
Inhabits Carolina, Virginia, and Canada, Kalin fays, he found
It in great plenty; and that it deftroys (he apple-trees by pecking
holes in. them.
H O O D P E C K E R,
Picas pubefeens, Lin. Syfi. i. p. ,7 Î . j{o ij ,
f * pstit Plc v" fé de Virginie, Bri/ ont. iv. p. 50. N* 18
" Eperche, on petit Pic varié de Virginie, Buf. Yü. .<
Smalleft Woodpecker, Catefi. Car. i. p i. 2 j. P 7
X-eaft fpotted Woodpecker, Kalmf Tr. ii. p. 87.
Xittle Woodpecker, Am. Zaol. N°,
Lev* Muf,
T H I S I& fo like the laft fpecies as to be almoft taken for It
r J § f f f " 0t COnfiderably M in Rze> weighing, according to
f Jhy’ ° nly ^ « e e n pennyweights *; but Brijfon deferibes it as
iomewhat bigger than our European fmalleft fpecies : the length is
five tnches and a half The bill is. eight lines long, and of a
horn-colour: top of the head'black; on each fide above the eye
j * WhltC 1,ne : hlnd head : hind part of the neck, the back
and rump are black; which is, like the laft, divided into two
parts by a line of white, palling down the middle to the rump : the
fcapulars, and upper wing and tail coverts, are black; the greater
wmg coverts and quills fpotted with white : the under parts of
«he body pale grey: tail black; the four middle feathers plain •
the reft barred with white and black : legs and claws black
The: female has no red on the hind head. Linnoeue obferves
that the outpr tail feather is white, marked with four black
Ipots.
This fpecies inhabits Virginia and Carolina.
g Acc°rding to Kalm, this fpecies abounds in N m jerfiy1 where
“ is accounted of all others the moft dangerous to orchards, and
is. the moft daring. As foon as it has pecked one hole in a tree,
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