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Place.
ftraw-coloured, palfing over the eyes and down the fides o f the
n e ck : from the lower mandible a ftreak o f black, communicating
with the fore part o f the neck, which is black:, the back, wing
eoverts, fcapulars, lower part of the belly, and tail, black : upper
half o f the quills and fecondaries white; the reft black : the belly
and thighs the fame, marked with faint tranfverfe bars of white :
legs black.
This was found near four hundred miles up the river Albanyy
in North America, in the month of January. It is called May-
May, and is moft probably a variety o f the Pileated Woodpecker*
differing chiefly in the under parts being ftriated with white.
9.
RED-BREASTED
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Red-breafted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. iu p.-562-N0 9V
^ p H E tail o f this bird is wholly black, except one of the middle
feathers, which has three fpots o f white on one fide o f the
fhaft. The whole length of the bird eight inches and a half.
Such a bird as this, if not the fame, was met with in Nootka/
Sound, on the eoaft of North America. It is faid to be “ Lefs
“ than a Thrujh, of a black colour above, with white fpots on the
“ w ing ; a crimfon head, neck, and bread, and a yellowifh olive-
“ coloured belly j from which laft circumftance it might perhaps
“ not improperly be called the Tellow-bellied Woodpecker
* Cook's Laft Voyage, ii. p. 297.
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W O O D P E C K E R ,
Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 564. N° iz.^ A rtt. Zool. ii.
N* 162.
Picus major, Brun. 40.^-Muller, N° gg.— Georgi Rei/e,Tp. \6$\’*—Sepp.
Vog. pi. in p. 41.
p O U N D in Ruffi'a, and other parts o f Europe, as high as Lap-
mark-, extends alfo to the raoft eaftern parts o f Sibiria. Inhabits
AJirachan *. I have never feen the egg o f this bird; but
obferve, in Sepp’ s figure o f it, that the colour is a greyilh white,
mottled with minute dufky fpecks.
Notwithftanding we can afcertain at leaft five fpecies o f Woodpeckers
in England, yet I am allured, by a very intelligent nsturaliftjfc,.
that not a fingle one is found in Ireland.
. Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 565. N° 13.— Arft. Zool. ii.
p. ays. D.
Picus medius, Brun. N° 41 .— Mailer, N° 100.— Geergi Rei/e, p. 165.
'j^ 'H I S bird is met with on the continent, being found in Denmark
and Ruffin. It alfo frequents the neighbourhood o f
•the lake Baikal, and is likewife found at AJirachan %.
XeiTer Spotted Woodpecker, Go;;. Syr. ii. p. 766. N° 14.— —'V.7. Zook. ii.-
p. 278. E.
Picus minor, Muller, N° 101.
T H IS fpecies is feen as far north as either o f the two laft-named
fpecies, and likewife extends to the moft eaftern parts of Sibiria.
* Dec, Riijf. Ii. p. 143.
■ Btff. ii. p. 143.
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