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and white : from the lower jaw fprings a crimfon band, like a 

 whifker : back, wings, and tail, brown black, without fpots ; but 

 the ends of the laft are jufr. tipped with white : belly flriated 

 black and white : legs black. 



This defcribed from a fpecimen in the Britijh Mtifeum. 



12. Picus major, Lin. Syft. i. p. 176. N° lj.—Muller, p. 12. — Scop. ami. i, 



%POTTED R F ' 47 " N ° 53 "~ ^^ P ' 33S * N ° 3 * 



™ Le grand Pic varie, Brif. orn. iv. p. 34. N° 13. 



L'Epeiche, ou le Pic varie, Buf. oif. vii. p. 57. 



— PL enl. 196. the male, 59$. the female. 



Bunt Specht, Fri/ch. t. 36. 



Picus varius major, Rait Syn. p. 43. A. 4. 



Greater fpotted Woodpecker, or Witwall, Will. orn. 137. pi. 21, 



Great fpotted D°, Br. Zool. N° 85.— Amer. Zool. N° 



Br.Muf. Lev.Muf. 



Description. '"IpHIS fpecies is about the fize of a Blackbird: in length nine 

 inches and a quarter : weight two ounces and three quarters. 

 The bill is thirteen lines long, blackifb, with the bafe horn- 

 coloured : the irides are reddifh : general colour of the body 

 black above : the forehead is of a dirty buff-colour : on the hind 

 head is a bar of crimfon : cheeks white : on each fide of the 

 neck, at the hind part, is a fpot of white: the fcapulars and wing 

 coverts neareft to .them are white, and the quills fpotted with 

 white alfo : the throat and breaft are of a yellowifh grey : the 

 lower part of the belly and vent crimfon : tail black ; the four 

 middle feathers plain ; the others more or lefs marked with 

 ■white -, the outmoft feather has two black fpots on each fide of 



the 



