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respects, similar to those of the other species, and it procures 



Food, its food, consisting of larva? hatched in the bark and decayed 



wood of trees, bees, and other insects, by scaling the trunks 



and branches, which it does with the same ease and rapidity 



Nest, &c. as the other species. It breeds in deep holes, which are 



hewed by the power of its bill, frequently even out of the 



solid wood, and, like the other Pici, lays three or four 



white eggs. 



PLATE D. Fig. 4. represents the male bird, of the natural 



size. Length nearly eighteen inches. 



General Bill, with the upper part, bluish- white, and the tip pass- 

 descrip- j n g j n t o bluish-black. The whole of the plumage deep 



black ; except the crown of the head, which is bright 

 arterial blood-red. Iris yellowish-white. Legs and toes 

 bluish-black ; the outer hind toe longer than the cor- 

 responding front one. Claws semicircular, strong, and 

 very sharp. 



GREAT-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



PICUS MAJOR., Linn. 

 PLATE XXXVIII. FIG. 2. 



Picus major, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 176. 17 __ Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 436. sp. 17. 



Faun. Suec. No. 100 __ Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. p. 228. 13. 

 Picus varius major, Rail Syn. p. 43. A. 4. Will. p. 94. t. 21. Briss. 4. 



p. 34. 13. 

 Le Pic varie ou Pic Epeiche, Buff. Ois. v. 7. p. d^.Id. PI. Enl. 196. and 



595. male and female Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 595. 

 Die Bunt-specht, Bechst. Naturg. Deul. v. 2. p. 1022 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. v. 1. p. 121 Id. Vog. Deut. v. 1. t. male and female Frisch. 



t. 36. male. 

 Greater-spotted Woodpecker, Br. Zool. 1. No. 85 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 162. 



Will. (Ang.) p. 137. t. 21 Lewin's Br. Birds, t. 47 Lath. Syn. v. 2. 



p. 564. 12. Id. Supp. p. 107 __ Mont. Ornith. Diet Pnlt. Cat. Dorset. 



p. 6 Don, Br. Birds, 2. t. 37 Bewick's Br. Birds, v. 1. t. 118. 



THE species now given, and which is one of the members 

 of Mr SWAINSON'S genus Picus, although not so numerous 



