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Genus XXI. WOODPECKER. 



50. a. Malacca W, 



*WITHFOURTOES. 



1- Great Black Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 552. \.—-ArSl. ZooL ii. p. 276. A. 



'^^^^'^^^^^^ Pious martius, Brmt. N° 38.— M«//^;-, N" 97. 



'T^HIS is common in Ruffia, frequenting the woods, from St. 

 Peterjburgh to Ochotjk on the eafternoctzn, and io Lapmark on 

 the weji*. Is not an inhabitant of ^0»2//<r^a//^^. 



This fpecies is fo very deflruftive to Bees, that the Bafchirians, 

 in the neighbourhood of the river Ufa, as well as the inhabi- 

 tants of other parts, who form holes in the trees twenty-five or 

 thirty feet from the ground, wherein the Bees may depofit their 

 ftore, take every precaution to hinder the accefs of this bird ; and 

 in particular are cautious to guard the mouth of the hive with 

 fliarp thorns J notwithftanding which, the /Fijoi^if^^^r finds means 

 to prove a very deftruftive enemy: and it is obferved to be in. 

 molt plenty where the Bees are in the greateft numbers -f. 



I have heard mention made of this fpecies having been once 

 feen in xhejoiithern parts of this kingdom ; and Mr. 'Tunjiall tells 

 me, that he has been informed, by a fkilful ornithologift, of its 

 being fometlmes feen in Devonjloire, 



* ArSl. Zool. f Dec. Rujf. iv. p. 9, 17. 



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