. Arctic zoology .. . ach corner of the mouth a-black line extends along the cheeks : the upper part of the breaft ismarked with a black crefcent; the remainder and the belly whitifh,fpotted with black : back and coverts of wings of a fine pale brown,,barred with black : the primaries cinereous; their fhafts of a gold-color; the under fide of the webs of a gloffy yellow :rump v\rhite,. fpotted with black : tail black, edged, with white : all the feathers gold-colored, except thofe of the tw;o mid-die feathers: legs dulky. Length twelve inches. Weight five-ounces. The
. Arctic zoology .. . ach corner of the mouth a-black line extends along the cheeks : the upper part of the breaft ismarked with a black crefcent; the remainder and the belly whitifh,fpotted with black : back and coverts of wings of a fine pale brown,,barred with black : the primaries cinereous; their fhafts of a gold-color; the under fide of the webs of a gloffy yellow :rump v\rhite,. fpotted with black : tail black, edged, with white : all the feathers gold-colored, except thofe of the tw;o mid-die feathers: legs dulky. Length twelve inches. Weight five-ounces. The Female wants the black oneach fide of the throat.*^^° Inhabits from Hudjons Bay to Caroli! again on the weftern fide of North America. In the firft is migratory, appearing in , the country in Sepemher. All the American Woodpeckers,agree with thofe ol Europe in building in hollow trees, and in layingfix white eggs. The natives oiHudJon^s Bay call this fpecies, On-thee- • Kalm,. 3 . , quan-. FERRUGINOUS, AND RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 271 quan-nor-ow, from the golden color of the fliafts and under fide ofthe wing feathers*. ThQ Swedifi Americans call it Hittock^ and Pza/f ; v/ords formedfrom its notes. It is almoft continually on the ground j and neverpicks its food out of the fides of trees, like others of the genus : nei-ther does it climb, but fits perched, like the Cuckoo; to which itlias fome refemblance in manners, as well as form. It feeds on in-Je<5ts. Grows very fat, and is reckoned very palatable. It inhabitsthe Jerfies, and other .provinces to the fauth, the whole year. ZiOtham, i. 592. -^59 I^HR-i-t/Gi Le Pic Mordore, De Buffon, vii. 34.—PA Enl. 524. noxjs. AVith a duflcy bill: the crown and pendent creil of a paleyellow: a crimfon bar extends from the mouth along thelower part of the cheek : the cheeks, back, and coverts of the wings,of a deep ferruginous color : lower part of the back of a pale yel-low: primaries ferruginous, barred on
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