THBEE-TOED WOOBFEGKEE. 



ZYGODACTYLI. 

 Famihj PICIBM. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Picus. ( Linnceus.) 



THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. 



Picus tridactylus . 



Picus tridactylus, LiNN^US. 



Picoides tridactylus, Lacepede; Mem. del. Inst., 1799. 



♦' " Dresser; Birds of Europe. 



" europoeus, Lesson. 



" alpinus et montanus, Brehm. 



Picus crissoleucus, Brandt. 



" leucopygus, Sundeval. 

 Apt emus crissoleucus et 



Kamtchatkensis, Bonaparte. 



Dreizehiger specht, Of the Germans. 



Tretaaet Spette, Of the Norwegians. 



Tretaig Hackspett, Of the Swedes. 



Specific Characters. — Only three toes, which distinguish it at once. Crest 

 of male yellow. General plmnage black and white. 



I have been requested, by a distinguished British ornithologist to 

 introduce this bird on the grounds that there is really not the slightest 

 proof beyond the statement of Donovan for including it in the English, 

 fauna. Mr. Robert Gray alludes to the subject in his "Birds of the 

 West of Scotland/' merely stating that no specimen since tbe days of 

 Donovan has occurred in Scotland; and Mr, Dresser is equally decisive 

 in his "Birds of Europe." I have therefore no hesitation in including 

 it in my book. 



The Three-toed Woodpecker is a truly northern bird, being found 

 principally in Scandinavia, Siberia, Carpathian Russia, Switzerland, the 



