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fe u r e ly m a rk e d w i th fo u r o r fiv e fm a ll red fp o ts : n o ftr ils c o v e re d
w i th b la c k b r iftle s , tu rn in g fo rw a rd s from th e corners o f th e
m o u th , p a flin g b a ckw a rd s , is a ft r o k e o f b la c k l ik e a w h ilk e r :
b a c k and fc ap u la r s b lu e g r e e n : rum p y e l lo w : w in g c o v e r ts y e l -
lo w i lh g re en : q u il ls d a r k b row n, fp o t te d w i th l ig h t y e llow :
u p p e r and low e r ta il co v e r ts d u ll g re en : t a i l i t f e l f b row n , c ro fted
w i th d u lk y lin e s : u n d e r th e th ro a t w h it ilh : from th en c e to th e
v e n t c in e re ou s , w i th a m ix tu r e o f g re en : le g s an d -claw*
b la c k .
T h i s cam e f r om Norway.
jj£* .
PERSIA#
W.
Le Pic jaune de Perft, Brif. cm. iv. p. 20. N *J.
Picus luteus cyanopus Perficus, Rail Syn. p. 44. g.
Periian Woodpecker, Will. cm. p. 141,
D e s c r ip t io n * ^ jp H E fir ft d e fe r ib e r o f th is w a s Aldrovandus -, a fte r w h om Wil-
lughby thus d e fe r ib e s it : " In b ign e fs it d iffe rs l i t t l e o r n o th
in g from th e g re en W o o d p e c k e r , o n ly i t has a th ic k e r head and
n e c k , and a lo n g e r b i l l : th e fea th e rs , from th e m id d le o f th e
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c r ow n to th e en d o f th e ta il, h a v e Ibm e th in g o f th e fe r ru g in o u s ;
b u t th e b i l l is a l to g e th e r fe r ru g in ou s : th e fe e t are o f a p a le b lu e
th e c law s are b la c k : th e re ft o f th e b o d y is y e llow , fa v e th a t a ll
th e w in g fe a the rs ends o r tip s in c lin e fom ew h a t to fe r ru g in ou s j
and th a t a fp o t o f th e fam e c o lo u r encompa ffes th e e y e s .”
T h i s was fa id to b re ed in Per/ia.
Buff on * th in k s th a t lè v e ra i o f th e la f t are v a r ie t ie s o n ly o f the
common green Woodpecker. W h e th e r th is be fo o r n o t , I th in k I t
• H ijl, des ci/. vii. p, i i .
right
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right to detail the colours, &c. of each, that the reader may the
better judge for himfelf, fince other authors are not o f that opinion.
Picus aurantius, Lin. Syf. i. p. 174. N“ 8.
Le Pic du Cap de Bonne Efperance, B rif cm. iv. p. 78. N° 10. t. 6. f.
Lev, Muf,
i * 5
mm
ORANGE
W.
Bill an inch and J ENGTII ten inches and a half. a half in D e s crip t ion.
length, and of a deep lead-colour: crown and hind head
red ; the feathers of them long and narrow : on each fide,
from behind the eye to the hind head, is a ftripe of white; and
another from the noftrils, palling under the eye down the fides of
the neck: the hind part and fides of the neck are blackilh : the
cheeks, throat, and fore part of the neck, dirty grey ; the margins
of each feather blackilh: the upper part of the back of a fine
golden orange-colour fcapulars golden olive, with an orange
tinge: lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts,
blackilh : breaft, belly, fides, and thighs, dirty white; the feathers
margined with brown : the under tail coverts the fame, with
blackilh margins, and a tranfverfe ftripe of black: wing coverts
blackilh brown ; on .the tips of fome of them a dirty grey fpot;
the greater ones next the body gilded olive, and fome of them
fpotted in the fame manner ; thole fartheft from the body are
plain black brown : quills dark brown ; fome of them fpotted
with dirty white : tail black : legs and claws pale lead-colour.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. Place.
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