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206 except the vent and under tail coverts, which are red.

The Spotted Woodpecker is much more strictly an arboreal bird than the green species. It climbs with great ease and dexterity, traversing thetrunks and limbs of trees in all directions, perpendicularly, and horizontally, and digging with great diligence and effect into the bark and wood for insects. In Kensington Gardens this species is quite common, where it keeps mainly about the highest limbs of the lofty trees; the loud tappings