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crimson ; lower back, rump, lower breast, and under parts white ; bases 

 and tips of most of the primaries white ; sides of the upper throat and ear- 

 coverts finely streaked with white ; feathers on the lower abdomen black, 

 tipped with white ; bill dusky grey, paler at the tip and at the base below ; 

 legs dark grey ; iris light yellow. Culmen 2"5, wing 9'65, tail 6'80, tarsus 

 1*2 inch. The female is browner in tinge of colour and lacks the red 

 colour on the head. 



Hdb. Corea and the island of Tsu-sima between Corea and 

 Japan. 



I find nothing on record respecting its habits or nidification 

 in which it probably resembles P. martins. 



DENDROCOPUS, Koch, 1816. 

 625. PIED WOODPECKER. 

 DENDROCOPUS MAJOR. 



Dendrocopus major (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 176 (1766) ; (Naum.), v. 

 p. 298, Taf. 134 ; (Hewitson), i. p. 240, pi. Ixi. fig. 3 ; (Gould), B. of 

 Gt. Brit, iii. pi. 70 ; Newton, ii. p. 470 ; (Dresser), v. p. 19, pi. 275 ; 

 Hargitt, Cat, B. Br. Mus. xviii. p. 211 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 712 ; 

 Saunders, p. 275 ; Lilford, ii. p. 6, pis. 2, 3 ; D. cissa (Pall), Zoogr. 

 K. As. i. p. 412 (1811) ; Hargitt, torn, cit, p. 214 ; D. purus t Stenj. 

 Auk. 1884, p. 35. 



Pic dpieclie, French ; Peto malhado, Portug. ; Picamaderos, 

 Span. ; Picchio maggiore, Ital. ; Grosser Buntspechl, Germ. ; 

 Bonte Specht, Dutch ; Star Flagspet, Norw. and Dan. ; Storre 

 Hackspett, Swed. ; Isompi-Tikka, Finn. ; Obiknovennoi-DyateU, 

 Russ. 



(J ad. (Sweden). Upper parts chiefly black ; occiput crimson ; fore- 

 head fulvous white ; lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck and scapulars 

 white ; quills barred with white on the outer web, as are the outer 

 tail-feathers ; under parts more or less white ; lower abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts crimson ; bill lead-grey ; legs greenish grey ; iris pale reddish. 

 Culmen 1*1, wing 5'8, tail 4'0, tarsus 0'95 inch. The female lacks all red 

 on the head, and the young have the crown crimson from the frontal band 

 to the occiput, 



Hdb. Europe generally, from about 70 N. lat., down to 

 the Mediterranean ; Canaries ; Asia Minor ; Asia east to 

 Kamchatka and the sea of Japan, and south to Mongolia. 



Frequents woodlands and the true forest, and in the summer 

 especially is somewhat fond of solitude. As a rule it is a 



