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PICID.E 



INSESSORES. 

 SCANSORES. 



PICIDJE. 





THE GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



FRENCH- PIE, AND WOODPIE. 



Picus major. 



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



Greater 

 Pied 



Greater 

 Great 



Pic 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

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

 FLKM. Brit. An. p. 91. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. voL i. p. 375. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 150. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. x. 

 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, 



