320 OF BIRDS. 



\\here it pierces infects, ants, and 1 their chryfalis, commonly 

 called Ant's Eggs, the co/fi or hexapod-worms, hatched from the 

 oi' a of beetles, which it often explores on the ground. It breeds 

 in the cavernous trunks of old trees. 



1 6. The great fpotted Woodpecker (t), is a native of the fame 

 woods. It is fomewhat larger than a blackbird ; the beak more 

 than an inch long, triangular, and channelled lengthways, 

 tapering from a ftrong broad bafc to a point ; ihonfct* or briftles 

 {landing round the noftrils, black and curled. The eyes are 

 handfome, the iris red, the pupil large and black ; the tongue 

 formed like that of the green Picas ; the chaps ftreaked with 

 white, met on each fide by a tranfverfe crimfon-line from the 

 neck in the male, but not in its mate ; the interior part of the 

 tail a bright crimfon. The head is black, {haded with green ; 

 the back and exterior plumage of the wings black, the latter 

 variegated with fpots of white, and a white fpot on the infertion 

 of the wings. The bird here defcribed was fhot in Coutitefs's wood 

 upon North Tyne, and prefented to me. 



1 7. The JeJ/er fpot ted Woodpecker (u) has 'been obferved and fhot in 

 woods with the former. It is like it in fhape, but considerably 

 lefs ; in the fame rich plumage ; the head and rump of the male 

 of a fplendid crimfon, a peculiarity which the females of both 



(t) Picus rarius nvyor. Will. Orn. 94. t. 2.1. Raj. Av. 43. 4. Charlet. Av. . 93. n. 2. 

 Picus albo nigroque variegatus, vertice nigro, redricibus tribus laterajibus utrinque albefcen- 

 iibus. Linn. Faun. Syce. p. 29. n. 81. 



(u) Picus yarius minor. Will. Orn. p. 94. t. 21. Raj. Av. 43. n. 5. Cbarlet. Av. p. 93. 

 n. I. 



Picus albo nigroque varius, re&ricibus tribus lateralibus apice albo-variegatis. Linn. 

 Faun. Suec. p. 29. n. 82. 



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