244 MIDDLE WOODPECKER. Class II. 



the two outmoft black , the upper parts a dirty 

 white. The exterior feather marked on each web 

 with two black fpots ; the next with two on the 

 inner web, and only one on the other. The legs 

 Female, are of a lead color. The female wants that beauti- 

 ful crimfon fpot on the head ; in other refpedts the 

 colors of both agree. This fpecies is much more 

 uncommon than the preceding •, and keeps altoge- 

 ther in the woods. 



86. Middle. Picus medlus. P. albo nigroque Suec. /p. 82. Scopoli, No. 

 varius, criffo pileoque ru- 54. 



bris. Lin. fyjl. 176. Faun, Le Pic varie. Brijfon av. IV. 



38. 



THIS fpecies agrees with the preceding in 

 colors and fize, excepting that the crown 

 of the head in this is of a rich crimfon ; the crown 

 of the head in the male of the former black ; and 

 the crimfon is in form of a bar on the hind part. 



Birds thus marked have been fliot in Lancajhire^ 

 and other parts of England-, but I am doubtful! 

 whether they are varieties, or diftindl fpecies. 



Gefncr 



