WOODPECKER. 



very rarely feen in France. Frifcb mentions it as a bird common 

 to his parts j and it is found alfo in Sweden, Switzerland, and Den- 

 mark *; but not in winter. 



It is faid to build in old Afh and Poplar trees, making large 

 and deep nefts ; and Frifcb obferves, that they often fo excavate a 

 tree, that it is foon after blown down with the wind ; and, that 

 under the hole of this bird may often be found a bujhel of duft, 

 and bits of wood. The female lays two or three white eggs, the 

 colour of which, as Willnghhy * obferves, is peculiar to the whole 

 of the Woodpecker genus, or, at leaft, all thofe which have come 

 under his inflection. 



15; 



Manwers. 



'Picus principalis, Lin. Syjf. i. p. 173, N" 2. 

 LePic noir hupe de la Caroline, Brif. orn. iv. p. 26. N* 9. 

 Grand Pic noir a bee blanc, Buf. otf. vii. p. 46. 

 Pic noir hupe, de la Caroline, PL enl. 690. 

 Quatotomomi, Rait Syn. p. 162. — Will. orn. 390. 

 •King of the Woodpeckers, Kalm. <voy. ii. p. 85 ? 

 Largeil white-billed Woodpecker, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 16, 

 White-billed Woodpecker, Amer. Zool. K° 



WHITE- 

 BILLED 



W. 



*TpHIS is bigger than the laft, being equal in fi'ze to a Crow-: 

 **• it is fixteen inches in length ; and weighs twenty ounces. 

 The bill is as white as ivory, three inches in length, and chan- 

 neled : irides yellow : on the hind head is an erect pointed creft, 

 of a fine red colour, fome of the feathers being two inches long : 

 the head itfelf, and body in general, are black; but the lower 



Description. 



Zocl. Da/iic. 



f Orn. p. 134. 



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