P la c e .
40.
CAYENNE
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D escription»
P la c e .
the tail high yellow: belly and' tail black s thighs and inner
coverts of the wings, pale yellow: legs dark green.
Inhabits Brafii* 1
Le Pic rayé de Cayenne, Brif. am. iv. p. 69. N° 27.
Le: petit Pic rayé de Cayenne* Bu/, oif. yii. p. 31.
Pic raye, de Cayenne, Pi. enl. 613:.
T H-IS is. n°t fo big as the varied Woodpecker : the length is near
feven inches and'a half. The bill ten lines and ahalflong, and
blackifh : the top of the head is black : hind head red : the fides,
whitilh: hind part of the neck and back yellowifh olive; but on
the lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, each
feather has-a fpot of black near the tip : the throat is black, minutely
fpotted with white ; the fore part of the neck and breaft
are of a dull yellowifh olive, with a fmall Black fpot alfo near the
end of each feather;, and fome of them tipped with red : the belly,
fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, yellowilh, with a few black
fpots on the two laft: fcapulars and wing coverts dull olive,
tranfverfely ftriped with blackifh : quills of the laft colour, with
yellow fhafts, fpotted on the outfide with yellow, and within with
white: tail black; the fix middle feathers are barred with dull
olive on the outer web ; but the'two middle ones have the inner
web marked the fame; the two outer ones are barred black and
rufous,, with the fhafts yellow : legs.grey-: claws grey-brown.
Inhabits Cayenne i Thishas great likenefs-to the laft hut one.
LePicblanc de Cayenne, Brif. or«. 1 p. 8 l. N. „
Le Pic jaune de Cayenne, Buf. oif. vii. p,
B | r 7" pl-S | >°9-
Charpentier jaune, Form. Defer.% Sun«, vol. ii. p. , , , f
Lev. Muf.
^ p H I S is lefs than our green Woodpecker: being only nine
. inches in length. The bill is of a yellowifh white! and ab o S
an inch long: the hind head is crefted: the head itfelf the neck
“ d whole bod,. covered Md irt, feather, ? f ^ t t
lower jaw to the ears, on each fide, is a red ftripe: the wino-
coverts are brown, edged with yellowilh ; and fome of the greater
M t o m .WIth rufous on J g f | § web: quills brown or mfousr
tail black : legs and claws grey.
. This is common at Cayenne,, and is called there Charpentier
jaune. It makes, the neft in old. trees which are rotten within ;
Wf ltS b‘ 1 3 h0le f a -th ou t, at firft horizontal, f t
declining downwards as foon as it has pierced through the found
part till ,t is at laft a foot and a half below the firft opening. The
f H i*f5h ,i,r" » « v ™ » d t6gs. thpo *
,o 4 « The. mak bears his lharc
i work with the fim .k , and i„ her abfente keeps centred at
the entraoee of the hole. The note o f this bird!, a k L of .h id e
ha times repeated, o f which the two or three laft are in S
S T e on the fide of the ah eadf, wThi“ch" i s fTee‘n" ifn ’"th‘eU m ale " d band
Specimens vary ; fopie are o f that dirty white, as BriJTon
efenbes it, others of a light yellow; which laft is the cafe in a
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