GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



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INSESSORES. 



SCANSORES, 



PICIDJS. 







THE GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



FRENCH-PIE, AND WOODP1E. 



Picus major. 



Picus major, Great Spotted Woodpecker, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 319. 

 ., Greater MONTAGU, Omith. Diet. 



Pied BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 142. 



Greater FLEM. Brit. An. p. 91. 



Great SELBY, Brit. Ornith.vol.i. p. 375. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 150. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Pic epeicfa, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 



p. 395. 



THIS species, next to the Green Woodpecker, is the best 

 known in this country/ and is by no means uncommon, 



