tion, 



376 INSESSORES. PIC US. Woodpeckkr. 



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

 Food, its food, consisting of larvae 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 Pki, lays three or four 

 white eggs. 



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

 size. Length nearly eighteen inches. 

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



descrip- jj^g j^to 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, LAnn. Syst. 1. p. 176. 17 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 436. sp. 1? — 



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- 5T.-Id. PL Enl. 196. and 



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

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



Dent. 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 — Lewins Br. Birds, t. 47 — Lath. Syn. v. 2. 



p. 564. 12 Id. Supp. p. 107 Mont. Ornith. Diet — Pult. 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 



