220 PICINjE. PICUS. 



instances. Two specimens in my collection, were shot near 

 Nottingham. 



Picus martins, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 173. Picus martius, 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 390. Picus martius, Great Black 

 Woodpecker, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 77- 



142. Picus PIPRA. PIED WOODPECKER. 



Male with the upper part of the head, the back, and a band 

 on the side of the neck, bluish-black ; 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 neck, a narrow line 

 over the eye, and the scapulars, white ; the lower parts brown- 

 ish-white, excepting the abdomen and lower tail-coverts, 

 which are crimson. Female similar, but with the occiput 

 black, the white parts tinged with yellow, and the lower pale 

 brown. Young with the black parts tinged with brown, and 

 the top of the head crimson. 



Male, 9f, 17, 5, 1ft, 1, ft, ft. Female, 9, 16J, 



The Pied, or Greater Spotted Woodpecker, is extensively 

 distributed in England and Scotland, as well as in Ireland. 

 It is permanently resident, frequents woods and plantations, 

 especially those of beech and pine, feeding on insects and 

 larvae, which it obtains in the decayed bark and wood. The 

 eggs are placed in a hole formed in a tree, without any other 

 nest than chips of wood. They are generally five, pure white, 

 glossy, elliptical, one inch and a twelfth in length, and nine- 

 twelfths in breadth. 



Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Whitwall. Wood-pie. 

 French Pie. 



Picus major, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 176. Picus major, Temm. 

 Man. d'Ornith. i. 395. Picus Pipra, Pied Woodpecker, Mac- 

 Gillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 80. 



143. PlCUS STRIOLATUS. STRIATED WOODPECKER. 



Male with the forehead white, the crown crimson, margined 

 with black, the back and scapulars transversely barred with 

 black and white ; sides of the head and neck white, with a 

 black band ; lower parts brownish- white, breast and sides with 

 longitudinal dusky lines. Female similar, but with the crown 

 white. 



Male, 5J, 10, 3, ft, ft, ft, ft. 



This species occurs in most of the southern, eastern, and 

 midland counties of England, extending as far north as Derby, 

 and westward to Shrewsbury and Hereford. Its habits are 



