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PICUS PIPRA. THE PIED WOODPECKER. 



GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. WHITWALL. WOOD-PIE. FRENCH-PIE. 

 SNAGANDARAICH. 



Fig. 203. 



Picus major. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 



Picus major. Lath. Ind. Orn. H. 



Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Pic ^peiche. Picus major. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 395. 



Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Picus major. Selb. Illustr. I. 376. 



Picus major. Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 150. 



Male with the upper part of the head^ the hacJc^ and a hand on 

 the side of the necTc^ hluish-hlacJc ; a patch of crimson on the hind- 

 head ; a broad band of white over the forehead and under the eye, 

 a patch on the side of the necJc, a narrow line over the eye, and 

 the scapulars, white ; the loicer parts brownish-white, excepting 

 the abdomen and loioer tail-coverts, which are crimson. Female 

 similar, but with the occiput black, the white parts tinged with 

 yellow, and the loicer pcde-brown. Young icith the black parts 

 tinged with broicn, and the top of the head crimson. 



Male. — This species, which is about the size of the Missel 

 Thrush, is rare in all parts of Britain, although very exten- 



